Hello Klaus and all,
I appreciate the effort to co-ordinate the activities on MF
(frequency-wise), but like Alan and Markus I'm not very comfortable with
the a "band plan" at this very early stage.
You wrote:
1. A CW slot from 472kHz to 475kHz (=3kHz).
2. Within that, a region for beacons (472,000kHz to 472,150kHz) followed
by a region for Slow CW (472,150kHz to 472,300kHz).
Heavens no. Beacons within the IF filter bandwidth of many analog
receivers around 472.5 kHz, with the high possibility to overload the
frontend - please don't. Even IQ2MI can be annoying sometimes when
stations call around 501 kHz.
Also consider that, at the moment, the "lower end" of the band is the
most valuable part of it.
Just consider what happens if your next door neighbour decides to run a
beacon there.
IMHO, beacons there are evil, and we already have more than enough of
them on MF.
*If* somebody really thinks he needs to put up a long-running beacon,
suggest to get as close to the "upper end" as possible.
Wait until other countries get on, and don't carve anything in stone
unless an authority really forces us to do so.
Well, this is a very personal opinion. I appreciate your coordination
work, but I am not comfortable with authoritive bandplans on MF. Let's
coordinate things here, and on "the other" group as necessary. We need a
lot of flexibility on MF.
Cheers,
Wolf .
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