[CW] FCC Releases 71 page NPRM

[k0ng@inebraska.com]

Hi Don:  I am a staunch 80 Meters CW operator (when not operating AM!).
I ask the same question as you. Where are all the ops?? I think a lot of
the "new ops" dont know how or dont want to operate in QRN. (I dont either
as I age). Except for activity 3550 and lower plus a smattering of activity
up to 3700, there isnt anything heard here except for a few hearty souls
on about 3708 or so. I think fone ops could go lower also but alas, I dont
think that will solve the qrm (some intentional) problem.

73 Charlie, K0NG  .. 

Quoting Donald Chester <k4kyv@hotmail.com>:

> 
> > > most the of cw activity, by far, is lower in the
> > > band.... extending the extra class
> > > phone band down to 3725 rather than to 3700 khz (as
> > > some had wished
> 
> The cw ops who complain about proposals to extend the phone band down lower 
> in the 80m. band have no one to blame but the ABSENT cw operators on this 
> band.  Even in mid-winter there are often tens of kilohertz of vacant 
> spectrum between about 3575 and 3700, with little clusters of cw and 
> "digital" activity scattered here and there.  If these frequencies were 
> solidly occupied by cw ops, I say this would be a legitimate gripe, but 
> because of the fact that these frequencies are underused, who can blame 
> phone ops and users of other wideband modes for wanting these frequencies 
> opened up to other modes?
> 
> I remember only a decade or so, the "cw" band was full of activity from 3500
> 
> all the way to the Novice band, every night, winter and summer.  Even today,
> 
> the 40m. cw band  is holding its own despite SWBC and foreign SSB.  Where 
> has all the 80m activity gone?
> 
> Don K4KYV
> 
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