[Elecraft] Re: 'Threat' to 30m

[Dave Sergeant]

On 5 Apr 2005 at 4:01, elecraft-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:

> While nothing has been formally proposed yet and the details being
> discussed have changed a bit over the past year or so, the current
> thinking of the ARRL board is that the 3 kHz bandwidth would be
> permitted not over the whole 30 meter band but only between
> 10.135-10.150 kHz (see
> http://www.arrl.org/announce/ec_minutes_475.html) where I doubt there
> is much, if any, CW activity (data modes are currently permitted on
> the whole band, but tend to exist at the upper end--the proposed
> changes would LIMIT wider bandwidth to this region).

There is nothing new in this, it is clearly outlined in the April 
QST. It certainly has no bearing whatsoever on CW usage of 30m, in 
Europe at least, where practically all CW is below 10125 or so. But 
it may give the SSB chaps more clout in getting access to the band, 
that IS a threat...

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com