[CW] 80 meter activity

Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:04:56 -0700 (PDT)

--- John Geiger <[email protected]> wrote:
> 80 meters also has an additional 100 khz for CW that
> 40 and 20 don't.  THose bands have the SSB portion
> start 150 khz from the lower band edge.  On 80, it
> is 250 khz from the lower edge.  THere isn't much 
> CW activity in the 14.100 to 14.150 segment on 20.
> 15 meters has 200 khz for CW, as does 10 because 
> the 28.200 to 28.300 is generally reserved for 
> beacons.

i'm curious if anyone can tell me when (and why) 
they shifted the novice band down 25 khz. when i was 
a novice, and i know up through the mid 80's, the
novice segment was 3700-3750 khz. now it's 3675-3725
khz. and there is an slim, 25 khz cw sliver from
3725-3750 khz that the fcc is proposing to reallocate
to phone. i'm mystified how anyone could not forsee
that an isolated 25 khz sliver of cw bandspace in the
middle of 80m wouldn't be underutilized. did they
expect that this segment would be used for digital
modes? that would actually be a reasonable place for
it, instead of around 3580 khz.

scott nj0e

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Scott McMullen, NJ0E
http://www.geocities.com/scottamcmullen
[email protected]
Dripping Springs, Texas

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