Hi Lennart and all, > Have you studied what IARU says about the 160 m bandplan?
It will depend in witch region you are living in. In region 1, which is Europe, Africa and Middle East, we have these band plan : http://hf.ref-union.org/planhf/plan_des_bandes_hf.pdf Sorry it is written in French, but I think you can undestand what you can do and where you can do it. > To summarize: SSB is allowed "all over the place"! No, that's not true, CW is allowed all over the place! not SSB > We can never expect ITU or even the national authorities to take action in > order to divide this band into segments. Right! you can never expect that, the national autorities gives you the bands with the bands limits and they don't want to know what radioamators are doing inside. This is why the IARU delagates are building band plans at almost every conference, and so for different reasons. Mainly, because the bands limits changed, or because some modes are more used than other, or just because some people are not in agree with the band plan in used. > With the present statements from IARU any narrow band mode is allowed > anywhere on 160. That's not exactly that, from 1810 to 1838 kHz, it is a CW segment from 1838 to 1840 kHz it is a narrow band mode up to 500 Hz bandwidth from 1840 to 2000 kHz it is an all mode segment up to 2700 Hz bandwidth, with a digimodes segment from 1840 to 1843 kHz. > I suggest we all take action to have frequencies below 1830 protected from > anything but CW. > Above 1830 CW, SSB and RTTY should be allowed separately or in > combination, ie SSB/CW mixed QSO:s. I suggest you to be in contact with your HF IARU R1 manager, the next confernece is planed to next agust in South Africa, you have until April 12th to build your paper , to give it to your delegate to be sent in time to the IARU R1 secretary. Your paper will be discust down there, and if all the national societies agree with you, the IARU R1 band plan for 160 m may be will change. Take care and GL! See you on the band 73/88 de F8BPN, Mau [email protected] http://ph-martin.pagesperso-orange.fr/f8bpn/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lennart M" <[email protected]> To: "Topband" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 3:39 PM Subject: Topband: 160 m use > 73 > Len > SM7BIC > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
