[CVCC] Fw: Topband: W1AW is staying put for now

[rsmorris]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Kearman" <jkearman at att.net>
To: "Topband" <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 5:12 PM
Subject: Topband: W1AW is staying put for now


W1AW 160-meter frequency change put on hold (Mar 1, 2006) -- QRX on that 
W1AW QSY! Maxim Memorial Station W1AW has rescinded recently announced plans 
to change its 160-meter CW frequency starting Monday, April 3 and will 
remain on 1817.5 kHz for the time being. The announced change to 1807.5 kHz 
was aimed at reducing the possibility of interfering with DX stations that 
have begun showing up in the vicinity of 1817.5 kHz. "Lately we have 
received more complaints about W1AW interfering with weak DX signals," said 
ARRL CEO and W1AW Trustee David Sumner, K1ZZ. "Some of these complaints were 
about key clicks, which set us on a quest to put the cleanest transmitter we 
could find on 160." With the key click problem on the way to resolution, it 
was decided nonetheless to move W1AW's 160-meter frequency lower in the 
band. "After what we thought was due diligence we decided that it made sense 
to shift below 1810 kHz," Sumner recounted, "since that is the lower band 
edge in Region 1 and
  would pretty much eliminate the conflict with DXers." Monitoring showed 
that 1807.5 appeared to be generally clear. "Unfortunately," Sumner 
continued, "we failed to pick up the fact that PSK31 operators appear to 
have adopted 1807 kHz as their 160-meter frequency, and we don't want to 
conflict with any established activity centers."

Read more at http://www.arrl.org/

73,

Jim, KR1S
http://kr1s.kearman.com/
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