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