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G3LDI > MORSE 01.12.08 09:44l 107 Lines 3675 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: 40 METER CW FREQUENCIES
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To : MORSE@WWW
No new 40m frequencies for CW?
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Dear CW operators,
In papers submitted to the upcoming IARU Region I Conference three
member societies made recommendations regarding the 40m band plan
after
the remaining broadcastig stations will have left 7100-7200kHz.
REF, DARC and RSGB intend to fob telegraphists off with 0 (zero!),
+5 and +10kHz respectively, representing 0 (zero!) , 2.5% and 5% of
the new
40m band. In other words, concerning the additional 100kHz range:
"SSB takes it all".
The complete range ~7050-7200kHz shall become the new SSB
allocation. Compared currently 7043-7100kHz this represents
a growth of about 160% (one-hundred- sixty percent)!
The additional 100kHz allocation offers a unique opportunity to pacify
"border conflicts" between e.g. simultaneous (QRP) CW and RTTY
activities.
The recommendations submitted now pass up this unique chance and
cause new conflicts.
The above extremely SSB-sided redistribution is based on alleged
observations of daily use. Thus an proportional extension of all
subbands
-in a way obvious and just- is argued to be inappropriate.
Above "observations" are opposed by automated professional daily
spectrum
usage assessments, the latter of which show no decline of CW activity
on the hf bands. Further all major DX-peditions, also the all-time
record
VP6DX endeavour, log at least as many CW contacts as phone ones, not
to
mention E4/OM2DX with 66% CW.
Primarily the new 40m bandplan has to regulate the peaks of traffic
e.g. on a weekend during sunspot maximum by allocating adequate
slices of
the "new cake" to all modes. Without fobbing off CW (and digimodes)
with
nothing or almost nothing.
BC stations not leaving 7100-7200kHz immediately after their
allocation
expires are quoted as a further reason for disproportional
"extensions" .
This may come to pass thus, and with proportional extensions
(say 7000-7070 CW; 7070-7100 digimode; 7100-7200 SSB) it indeed
wouldn't be fair to simply shift the phone subband upwards into a
range
possibly still used for some time by broadcasters.
But the telegraphists are willing to bear this impairment in full
proportion. First and foremost CW is suited to assist the evacuation
of BC
stations, with digimodes certainly not far behind.
So instead of a direct proportional expansion of suballocations the
operating modes need proportional expansions in the upper half of the
enlarged 40m band. Either with the same subband positions as in the
lower
100kHz (e.g. CW I = 7000-7035; Digi I = 7035-7045; SSB I = 7045-
7100kHz.
CW II = 7100-7135 etc.). Or, maybe even better, in a mirrored
allocation
(Digi II = 7155-7165; CW II = 7165-7200), thus yielding a continuous
SSB
segment from 7045-7155kHz.
Recommendations CT08_C4_10 & Co. need to be withdrawn in any case.
To this end I ask all telegraphy operators to
- write or talk to the persons in their national amateur radio society
in charge of band plans;
- write or talk to managers of their national amateur radio telegraphy
clubs (FISTS, UFT, AGCW, HSC, etc.) inquiring how they advocated the
concerns of their members in this matter and how they intend to do so
in the near(!) future;
- use connections to foreign radio telegraphy clubs to warn them of
the
imminent threat to the 40m CW suballocation;
- bravely, self-confidently and frequently use CW between 7100 and
7200kHz,
which, before noon, can be an almost interference free pleasure.
CW lives and demands its fair share of the "cake", which some
obviously
begrudge us. So we need to fight for it.
73/2 es cu in the new 40m-band
"Hal", Hartmut Weber, DJ7ST
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