I think you would be surprised at how many CW ops are out there nowadays. Many are new, younger ops. I have worked several teenagers in CW in the past year.
Best regards - Brian Carling AF4K Crystals Co. 117 Sterling Pine St. Sanford, FL 32773 Tel: +USA 321-262-5471 > On Apr 13, 2015, at 2:38 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > wrote: > > If Generals feel their portion of the band is congested, they only have > to upgrade to Extra (under the current FCC rules) to take advantage of > all the band spectrum. Sounds like a no-brainer to me. > > I would also suspect many of today's newly minted Technicians (computer > savvy et al) would have more of an interest to operate digital modes then > the traditional CW mode. > > It's the 21st century; times are changing and amateur radio operating > practices, procedures, wishes, and desires need to evolve. > > Pete, wa2cwa > > On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 09:39:21 -0500 "Jim Wilhite" <[email protected]> > writes: >>> 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Boatanchors mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors > > _______________________________________________ > Boatanchors mailing list > [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors _______________________________________________ Boatanchors mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors
