Jim: The phone band is from 3600 to 4000 KHz. http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Regulatory/Band%20Chart/Hambands_color.pdf And, as far as I can tell, no one is proposing altering space just for contests. Where did you get that?
Pete, wa2cwa On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 22:03:05 -0500 "Jim Wilhite" <[email protected]> writes: > Not wishing to be argumentative but why would we want to alter the > band > space just for contests? I regularly monitor 80 meters and 40 > digital modes > but do not see a level of activity that merits additional space, > except as > you say during contests. > > I do see a lot of activity between 3.8 and 4.0 but it is all SSB and > they > are every 1.5 to 2 Kc apart. Probably that is because so many hams > have > General licenses and when in a round table the group would have > several who > cannot go below 3.8 Mc. To me that would be a good argument for > expanding > the space for SSB down to at least 3.7 to better utilize the band, > if not > all the way to 3.6. > > Jim > W5JO > > > -----Original Message----- > > > How would you even define "busy"? there's a lot of variables. > Suppose > there were a 1000 amateurs on the air between 3600 and 3900. Because > I > may not in their skip zone or conditions don't favor me with decent > reception, I only hear 50 of them. I would say the band is not busy > yet > there are 950 of them out there on the air that I can't hear. > > If you really want to detect "busy", "lots of use", "crowded > conditions", > etc. get on the air during a contest. > > Counting activeness is sort of like trying to count dust particles > blowing > through your back yard. > > Pete, wa2cwa > > > > On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 18:06:24 -0400 LM Picard <[email protected]> > writes: > > Just curious. Does anyone have any data on just how crowed the > bands > > > > are? What fraction of the band allocations are "busy" at any > > particular > > time. > > > > The ranks of active hams seem to be thinning out. Or am I wrong? > > > > Saw an article somewhere that shows that the average age of > licensed > > > > hams keeps rising. That is there are relatively few young people > > getting licensed. The few young people interested in a technical > > hobby > > seem to be into computer gaming, overclocking, writing cell phone > > apps etc. > > > > On 12/04/2015 5:33 PM, Bry Carling wrote: > > > If you have an Extra yes CW US ALLOWED anywhere but quite a few > > areas you will only have QSOs with other extras nowadays since > > everyone else has lost some CW spectrum in recent years. > > > > > > If we are not vigilant they may well lose more. > > > > > > Best regards - Brian Carling > > _______________________________________________ > Boatanchors mailing list > [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors > _______________________________________________ Boatanchors mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors
