[CW] FCC Releases 71 page NPRM

Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:01:29 -0300

One effect of this change that I think will happen is
the loss of your 3700 to 3725 khz CW section to Canadian SSB stations...

When the US SSB ops come down 25khz on 80 meters
to 3725 most of the Canadian SSB stations will also shift
25 khz down to get a clear spot, so the CW ops will
lose out in this repect.

However,  for the amount of CW I hear on 80M it doesnt make much difference,
there is a lot of unused CW space
every evening.

73

VE1DS

----- Original Message -----
From: "scott mcmullen" <[email protected]>
To: "cw" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: [CW] FCC Releases 71 page NPRM

> --- "Pedro J. Santa" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > In the meantime, let's dust off
> > those straight keys (so that
> > we do not get impatient with our own sending speeds)
> > and let's lie low,
> > waiting for those abundant QRS QSOs with the hording
> > swarms of Novices, Tech
> > Pluses and Technicians that will surely flood the CW
> > bands with venturesome
> > CQs addressed to all listening CW ops, should this
> > brilliant FCC proposal
> > comes to pass...
>
> i agree with pedro. my guess is that most anyone
> still  holding a novice license isn't active, and
> has possibly never made an amateur radio contact, or
> has totally lost interest. most of the contacts i
> make in the novice bands (and i do make a few) are
> generals or higher who are self-identifying cw
> beginners using  the novice band as a place to brush
> up on their cw skills. some of them are 5wpm extra
> class licensees who already have privileges to
> operate anywhere, but who voluntarily choose to
> operate in the novice band to stay out of the way
> of the higher speed activity further down that
> they are unable to copy.
>
> the major effect of the nprm is to extend the phone
> band 25 khz lower. for the most part, cw ops are
> not using those segments of the bands anyway; most
> of the novice band activity tends to hug the lower
> band edges (7100 khz). and i never hear extra class
> licensees using their 3725-3775 khz cw allocation
> either. there are some slow nets in the 3700-3725
> range (i actively participate in the texas slow net
> at 3719), so these won't be impacted by the nprm.
>
> most the of cw activity, by far, is lower in the
> band. i was pleased that the arrl proposed the more
> cautious reallocation; extending the extra class
> phone band down to 3725 rather than to 3700 khz (as
> some had wished), and the arrl's proposal is
> reflected in the nprm.
>
> an added benefit of the nprm is that any novice and
> tech pluses will be able to build and use some of
> the crystal controlled (or vxo) qrp rigs, such as
> the small wonder labs rockmite. currently, they have
> to re-crystal them for 7110 khz. they will also be
> able to build homebrew qrp rigs using the tv
> colorburst crystal at 3579.545 khz. though as i
> mentioned, i don't believe there are many of these
> licensees who are hf active.
>
> 73,
> scott nj0e
>
> =====
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> Dripping Springs, Texas
>
>
>
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