The benefit of using USB on 7125 could be accomplished with minimal
confusion to the rest of us if the king of the lower band edge, whoever it
might
be, would use USB, while the rest of the band continued with the
traditional LSB.
There might even be a useful function to that, in that a guy tuning down
the band might hear a guy on the opposite sideband, say "WTF?", and then
realize that he had hit the edge and ought not bother tuning any lower.
By the same logic, it might be beneficial if the users of the upper band
edges, i.e. 14350 and 21450, were to use LSB.
73 - Jim K8MR
In a message dated 11/5/2009 2:06:01 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
n2icarrl@gmail.com writes:
I would like to clarify the statement I made earlier:
"Frankly, I don't care what sideband the rest of the 40 meter users use."
First, let me apologize to anyone who may have taken offense from this. I
did
not wish to imply that either I, or other contesters, should run ram-shod
over
the non-contesters using 40 meters.
When I wrote this, I was thinking about all of the weekday nets and
ragchews on
40 SSB. Contest activities have no impact on these users, whether they use
LSB
or USB.
As to contest weekends on 40 SSB, there are several variations:
1) Contests with relatively light activity, such as most state QSO
parties. The
effect on non-contest uses is relatively small. It shouldn't matter
whether
contesters use LSB or USB.
2) Contests with heavy activity, such as CQWW Phone or SS Phone.
Currently, the
effect on non-contest users during many hours of the day is severe. The
effect
on non-contesters would continue to be severe, whether or not contesters
use LSB
or USB.
I hope I have clarified any misunderstanding, and not dug myself in deeper
:).
73,
Steve, N2IC
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