[Elecraft] Swains Is

[N5GE]

I believe their original plan had merit, except that they should have
transmitted in the Extra portion of the bands and listened above in
the General and Advanced portion of the CW bands.  

The change they chose leaves too much temptation for non-Extra class
hams to work them illegally since the ARRL DXCC Award only specifies
reporting the band used and not the actual frequency used by the
transmitter of the DXCC applicant.

There have been times when I was an OO that 4U1ITU made a habit of
transmitting just a KHz below the CW bands and listening only on
their TX Frequency causing many US hams to get OO notices for being
outside an Amateur band.  When I reported the 4U1ITU practice to the
ARRL they told me to stop making trouble.

73,
Tom
Amateur Radio Operator N5GE
ARRL Lifetime Member
QCWA Lifetime Member  

On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:19:37 +0200, Jon K Hellan <hellan at acm.org>
wrote:

>On 09/11/2012 03:39 AM, Tony Estep wrote:
>> However, they are now operating entirely in the Extra portions at
>> the very low end of the bands, probably in the hope that the pileup
>> behavior will improve. Of course, to the limited extent that this improves
>> matters, it's good only for CW and only on the non-WARC bands.
>
>Not to mention, only for US hams, 30 - 40% of the HF ham population? But 
>they're closer to the Pacific than Europe is.
>
>Jon LA4RT
>
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