If you really want to detect "busy", "lots of use", "crowded
conditions",
etc. get on the air during a contest.
Your mention of the existing SSB portion going to 3.6 is, of course, correct
but the General Class is limited to 3.8. Above that is where the congestion
is. So I would listen to a proposal to eliminate or expand that limit for
General Class hams to, say 3.7, more so than expand the portion allocated to
digital.
It seems as if they want to give privileges to Novice and Technicians to
increase the activity of the digital mode and basing their expansion on
supposed activity.
Jim
W5JO
-----Original Message-----
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
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