I've never heard of any "understanding" or "gentleman's agreement" banning
nets from the WARC bands, and I have heard some small nets from time to
time.
Whatever...
In any case, take another crack at one of your antennas with a tuner, you
might be surprised. For example, I've found that my AR99 10 meter vertical
will play on 12, 15 and 17 with not much persuasion from my tuner. Outside
of the ineveitable & occasional DX pileups, the WARC bands are very pleasant
places to operate.
73, ron wn3vaw
'If tin whistles are made of tin, what's do they make fog horns out of?'
-- from "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?"
Lonnie Donegan, SK, 4 November 2002
----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Hoffman <ghoffman@spacetech.com>
To: Ron Notarius WN3VAW <wn3vaw@fyi.net>; <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] 20 m users' net
I'm quite sure that they are not banned in any legal sense of the word.
On the other hand, I think there is an "understanding" among hams that
nets don't operate there. Its open for question either way.
Anyhow, since my beam doesn't support the warc bands... yes, I can load
into it there with a tuner, but it has no elements for them... I would
prefer
to operate on 20m. I agree with the earlier post that mentioned that there
is space up at the high end of the band that is less heavily used.
Hope something can be worked out. I cannot volunteer at this time to be
a net control station but I may be able to later in the winter.
73 de Gary, AA2IZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Notarius WN3VAW" <wn3vaw@fyi.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] 20 m users' net
> I've never heard before of a ban by anyone of nets on 17 meters (or 12 or
30
> for that matter).
>
> The only "ban" is that due to the various limitations of the three WARC
> bands (small size, power limits on some frequencies and in some areas, and
> some not available in some parts of the world to name 3), none of the
major
> contests and as far as I know none of the smaller contests permit contest
> operating on these bands.
>
> And that's a choice (and a good one, I think) by the various contest
> sponsors, it's not mandated by official regulations.
>
> 73, ron wn3vaw
> "Be who you are, say what you think, people that matter don't care, and
> people that care don't matter." -- Dr. Seuss
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rob Atkinson, K5UJ <k5uj@hotmail.com>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 1:37 PM
> Subject: [TenTec] 20 m users' net
>
>
> It's my understanding that nets aren't allowed on 17. By "not allowed" I
> mean one of those considerate operator's band plan type agreements like no
> contests on warc. However, my source for this was a bunch of guys in a
net
> I check into who were complaining about 20 m. qrm. I suggested 17m as an
> alternative and was told "no nets on 17." Don't know where this came from
> if true...ARRL?
>
> Rob Atkinson
> K5UJ
> k5uj@hotmail.com
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> Get faster connections -- switch to MSN Internet Access!
> http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp
>
> _______________________________________________
> TenTec mailing list
> TenTec@contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TenTec mailing list
> TenTec@contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
_______________________________________________
TenTec mailing list
TenTec@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
|