Re: [CQ-Contest] SSB in CW band

["K0HB " <k-zero-hb@earthlink.net>]

Last evening one of the big W1 'gurus' was "listening 7001" --- which in
effect means he was asking his respondents to transmit outside the band
down to 6998.5 or so!

No wonder we get a bad name!

beep beep

de Hans, K0HB
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> [Original Message]
> From: N7MAL <N7MAL@CITLINK.NET>
> To: <CQ-CONTEST@contesting.com>
> Date: 10/28/2006 3:18:00 PM
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] SSB in CW band
>
> I would like to suggest to the CQWWSSB guru's that a cut-off frequency be 
> set for 40 meters. I think 7025 and above is more than reasonable for SSB 
> operation during the contest. This year is worse than last and has been 
> getting progressively worse every year. There have been many pleas in
past 
> years but they fall on deaf ears at the contest committee. There is
plenty 
> of unused frequency spectrum above 7025. I checked several times and
there 
> was no valid reason for any station to operate below 7025. It might be 
> different if every 2.5 khz there was someone operating in the contest but 
> there wasn't. In fact there were several 20-25 khz segments where no one
was 
> operating, yet there were stations below 7025 operating in the contest.
> Thank you
>
>
> MAL
> N7MAL
> BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
> http://www.ctaz.com/~suzyq/N7mal.htm
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