[CW] A modest proposal

[N2EY@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/29/03 3:07:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
googlyelmo@earthlink.net writes:


> Now more than ever, with a new generation of hams coming on the air with 
> zero exposure to CW, CW/data subbands are important to keep order and to keep 
> QRM down. 

I agree 100%. There are also other factors:

- wide and narrow modes don't coexist very well
- there are those who want to toss out all subbands and have a free-for-all
- there needs to be an incentive/reward for the use of modes that require 
less spectrum than, say, SSB. Just like there are diamond/HOV lanes for 
carpoolers.


THe CW proficiency requirement was originally and ultimately based on the 
idea 
> that everyone using the HF bands needed to be able to recognize and read 
> CW, so as not to interfere with one another. Now that there are thousands on HF 
> with virtually no CW experience, and there will be yet thousands more, 
> keeping CW/data subbands, wherever ini the band they may be located, is essential 
> for CW and the data modes to be able to operate without massive QRM from SSB 
> ops who may not even recognize a CW and datasignals as a sigs at all, but 
> rather as hets to be notched out. 

You will sometimes here tha counterargument that the requirement was so that 
hams could understand other services telling them to move or shut down. But 
that argument is specious.



Subbanding gives CW/RTTY/AMTOR/PACTOR/et al/ a chance, even if its only 25 
> KHz or so of breathing room per band.
> 
> 

We need a lot more than 25 kHz per band, and we should not be shy about it. 

The same arguments about narrow vs. wide modes also apply to CW vs. "data" 
modes. 

Well said, Will

73 de Jim, N2EY


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