Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2513 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2002 15:47:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO warrior.services.quay.plus.net) (212.159.14.227) by excalibur.plus.net with SMTP; 7 Jan 2002 15:47:23 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: (qmail 16160 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2002 15:47:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO post.thorcom.com) (212.172.148.70) by warrior.services.quay.plus.net with SMTP; 7 Jan 2002 15:47:21 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 3.33 #2) id 16NbxF-00049l-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2002 15:44:53 +0000 Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.104]) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 16NbxD-00049e-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2002 15:44:52 +0000 Received: from southrelay01.raleigh.ibm.com (southrelay01.raleigh.ibm.com [9.37.3.208]) by e4.ny.us.ibm.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA58414 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:40:30 -0500 Received: from usa.net (ss8.bld.socks.ibm.com [9.14.4.73]) by southrelay01.raleigh.ibm.com (8.11.1m3/NCO v5.01) with ESMTP id g07FhQL41410 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:43:27 -0500 Message-ID: <3C39C217.9FB6863C@usa.net> Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 16:43:19 +0100 From: "Alberto di Bene" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Subject: LF: Re: New band plan References: <20020107105324.1BE1D3DC8@xprdmailfe.excite.com> <3C39881D.5513DCCD@usa.net> <3.0.1.16.20020107160505.31778276@pb623250.kuleuven.be> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group Sender: Rik Strobbe wrote: > I am happy to notice that the RSGB HF committee has wise men who understand > that specifice nature of the 136kHz ham band (only 2.1kHz in an extreme > high noise part of the spectrum) makes it more an experimenter band than a > communicator band. Rik, you touched the key issue... not only on the 136kHz band, but everywhere else any aspect of the ham activity faces the problems generated by the hiatus between the experimenters and the communicators... look e.g. at the diatribe generated by the experimental use of MFSK at 14.080 MHz, the 'holy' frequency of the RTTY DXers... 73 Alberto I2PHD