[Elecraft] US 60 Meter Band Changes Approved by FCC - CW Issues

[Sandy]

The CW signal must be radiated on the center frequency.  This won't make ANY 
difference except that you will have two memory settings for the same 
channel.  One for SSB and data  and RTTY modes, and one for CW mode which 
will simply occupy 10 memory slots.  If the FCC engineers want to hear a 1.5 
khz tone, that's THEIR problem, not ours.  Maybe there will be some "simple 
simon" type doing any monitoring and he will have a "reference" frequency of 
1500 hz. plus or minus what ever the "tolerances" are in PPM.  As I said 
this ISN'T OUR WORRY.

Will be nice to have a "CW" place to go that will be unmolested by 
contesters on weekends!

When is this supposed to appear in the Federal Register" anybody know?

73,

Sandy W5TVW

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike Morrow
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 2:13 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] US 60 Meter Band Changes Approved by FCC - CW Issues

I wrote:

>(3) Three emission modes (CW, RTTY, Data) are authorized in addition to the
>    existing USB mode.

There's interesting detail about carrier versus center frequency in the 
*new*
Section 97.303:

---QUOTE---
(h) 60 m band: (1) In the 5330.5-5406.4 kHz band (60 m band), amateur 
stations
may transmit only on the five center frequencies specified in the table 
below.
In order to meet this requirement, control operators of stations 
transmitting
phone, data, and RTTY emissions (emission designators 2K80J3E, 2K80J2D, and
60H0J2B, respectively) may set the carrier frequency 1.5 kHz below the 
center
frequency as specified in the table below. For CW emissions (emission 
designator
150HA1A), the carrier frequency is set to the center frequency...

  60M BAND FREQUENCIES (KHZ)
     Carrier   Center
     5330.5    5332.0
     5346.5    5348.0
     5357.0    5358.5
     5371.5    5373.0
     5403.5    5405.0
---END QUOTE---

Note the *requirement*:  "For CW emissions ... the carrier frequency is set 
to
the center frequency."

For example, switching from USB Phone on 5357.0 kHz to CW on the *same* 
channel,
the transmitter must transmit on 5358.5 kHz.  That will produce a 1500 Hz 
tone
in a USB receiver set to 5357.0 kHz.  It appears that now a transceiver will
need to shift not only the transmitter's carrier from 5357.0 to 5358.5 kHz,
but also receiver's effective frequency up by the amount needed to produce 
the
desired sidetone when tuned to a 5358.5 kHz CW signal.  The wording in the 
new
rule seems to introduce an unfortunate and valueless complexity for CW 
operation.

Mike / KK5F