[Elecraft] Re: CX Report

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

> Does this proposal make any sense to your folks out there?

No, it does not make sense.  Why restrict one type of activity - 
one that generates the most activity and participation - to 
artificially narrow portions of the spectrum when other activity 
has no such restriction. 

Digital mode contesting is the fastest growing HF activity and 
it is squeezed, particularly on 40 meters, due to the excessively 
narrow available spectrum in regions 1 and 3.  40 KHz (7020 - 
7060) is far from excessive particularly compared to the 70 or 
80 KHz occupied by CW contesters in a CQWW CW, ARRLDX CW, SS CW, 
CQWPX CW or the 200+ KHz occupied by phone operators in CQWW SSB, 
ARRLDX SSB, SS SSB, CQWPX SSB, etc.   

73, 

   ... Joe, W4TV 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Sandy
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 8:46 PM
> To: David Thompson
> Cc: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net; Elecraft List; Glowbugs reflector
> Subject: [Elecraft] Re: CX Report
> 
> 
> There has been an IARU bandplan that just came out.  NOW is 
> the time to 
> support it and restrict contests to the sectors that are 
> befitting the mode.
> 
> The RTTY guys run rampant all over the band and are making HF 
> comms "hell" 
> for others who would like a piece of the pie too.  This will 
> get worse as 
> modes like CW and AM become "obsolete" in their eyes.
> 
> There IS a simple solution:  retrict the contests to a small 
> slice of the 
> band.  Assign monitoring stations to list those that stray 
> out of these 
> "assigned segments".  The "penalty" would be disqualification 
> of log for 
> those who do so.  This would require that ARRL, IARU, RSGB 
> and others stand 
> by these standards so that the contesters would not 
> monopolize the WHOLE 
> band with their "fun"!
> 
> There is no reason why the contests shouild take up the whole 
> CW or whole 
> SSB segments or RTTY should run rampant over the entire band 
> during the 
> contests.
> 
> I am mainly a QRP contester, but the QRP folks have taken 
> steps to usually 
> restrict their contests to narrow segments of the CW bands to 
> avoid stepping 
> on the toes of those who wish not to participate.
> 
> Does this proposal make any sense to your folks out there?
> 
> 73,
> 
> Sandy W5TVW
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Thompson" <thompson at mindspring.com>
> To: <ebjr37 at charter.net>
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 2:08 PM
> Subject: Re: CX Report
> 
> 
> > Sandy,
> >
> > I was working the YL/OM phone a few years ago and calling 
> CQ YL and at 0Z
> > the North American Sprint came on.  These guys tried to 
> steam roll me.
> > K0GAS (a YL) worked me so I would give her a sprint QSO.  
> Moved to 40 to 
> > get
> > away from them.
> >
> > This year I was working the QCWA party and had to move to 
> SSB from CW as
> > some RTTY contest came on and wiped out the CW bands.
> >
> > A few years ago the State QSO parties almost died
> > as W5NQR/NQQ ran the LA one and I and K4BAI the GA one and 
> almost no one
> > came.  Now they and those sprints are all over plus there 
> is a RTTY one
> > every weekend now (I am on the writelog reflector so I see 
> posts about
> > them).  Some hams do 2 contests a weekend EVERY weekend and 
> now those
> > sprints are weeknights.
> >
> > I first entered the ARRL SS in 1958 so I have been around 
> for years and
> > quiet QSO parties such as CX and QCWA are being pushed off 
> the map.  Too
> > bad.
> >
> > What to do?  I have complained to the three or four people 
> who CONTROL
> > contests and they laugh me off. CQ and ARRL just look the other way.
> > And as you probably remember I run the CQ 160 Contests.
> >
> > 73 Dave K4JRB
> >
> >
> >
> >
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