[SOC] Digital crowding (and other myths)

[Radio K0HB]

Spent some hours the past two days looking for crowding on the prime CW
territory on 20M, 14.000 to 14.065MHz.

Except for the W1AW signals at 14.0475, mostly you could shoot off a cannon
loaded with grapeshot in that spectrum and hit nothing — CW, digital, or
red-nosed reindeer.

14.065 to 14.095 consistently held a few scattered little colonies of
digital signals.  Then from there to 14.350 a great swath of silence except
for a lonely soul at 14.300 “keeping the frequency clear” in anticipation
of a great maritime disaster.

73, de SOC Hans, K0HB/W7
“Just a Boy and his Radio”™









On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 07:35 g4jht <g4jht at eircom.net> wrote:

> Best defense of "CW spectrum" is to get in there a occupy it with lots
> of close packed "legal limit" CW QSOs. Digimode signals are no match for
> a raft of strong CW, I understand.
>
> As for so called intruders see my previous email today.
>
> 73, Dave
>
> On 12/18/2018 12:43 AM, Carl Strode wrote:
> > Someone better report this . . . I won't.
> >
> > My ARRL membership was cancelled after over 45 years when Dave Sumner
> > accused me of being greedy asking him to defend our CW spectrum.  ARRL
> will
> > be hard pressed to do anything that doesn't bring in money with no effort
> > expended.
> >
> > On 4:26PM, Mon, Dec 17, 2018 Quikhooligan via SOC <soc at mailman.qth.net
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 12/17/2018 5:34 PM, Dr Jim Kennedy via SOC wrote:
> >>> And what, if anything, is the ARRL doing to investigate and rectify
> this
> >> matter?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Dr. Jim Kennedy - K2PHD
> >> http://www.arrl.org/intruder-watch
> >>
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73, de Hans, K0HB
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