[Boatanchors] Re: CX Report

[Peter Markavage]

My comments follow the asterisks (**)
Pete, wa2cwa

On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 19:45:57 -0500 "Sandy" <ebjr37 at charter.net> writes:
> There has been an IARU bandplan that just came out.  NOW is the time 
to support it and restrict contests to the sectors that are befitting 
the mode.

**IARU Region 2 suggested revised band plan goes into effect Jan. 1,
2008.

> The RTTY guys run rampant all over the band and are making HF comms 
"hell"  for others who would like a piece of the pie too.  This will get 
worse as  modes like CW and AM become "obsolete" in their eyes.

**As a fairly frequent RTTY operator, I've never seen "RTTY guys" run
rampant, even during a contest, all over any particular band. There
aren't that many of us. I have no clue why you would believe that RTTY
operators, who do operate other modes too, would consider CW and AM
becoming obsolete. Heck SSB has been around for 60 years too. Might
consider that obsolete too.


> There IS a simple solution:  restrict the contests to a small slice of
the band.  Assign monitoring stations to list those that stray out of 
these  "assigned segments".  The "penalty" would be         >
disqualification of log for those who do so.  This would require that
ARRL, IARU, RSGB and others stand by these standards so that the
contesters would not monopolize the WHOLE band with > their "fun"!

**Contests have been around since the beginning of ham radio. For many,
it's a fun activity in the amateur radio hobby. What incentive would any
of these groups have to restrict the fun of contesters that is shared
internationally across the amateur radio world.

> There is no reason why the contests should take up the whole CW or
whole SSB segments or RTTY should run rampant over the entire band during
the contests.

**You need to remember that some countries have frequency restrictions as
to where and what mode they can use on any particular amateur band. The
amateur radio world doesn't just revolve around U. S. amateurs.