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Chris
Those that just listen as you put it are but Short Wave
Listeners and do not really have an input. It is the Transmitting Radio Amateur
looking for vacant slots on the band to propagate their RF that need
to be consulted if there is to be a Band Plan.
Like I said CW operators have nothing to fear since they
just slot into any vacant frequency and commence a QSO, no prior
arrangements are necessary like DIAL frequency and exact TIME SYNC to decode the
24/7 Beacon Grinders.
Another advantage of the CW mode is speed. A QSO normally
lasts minutes in which time all relevant information is passed, then the
frequency is vacated for others. ie maximum frequency economy.
On LF es MF with bands of only a few Khz wide, if
CW was the Norm there would be no need for a Band Plan.
QRP transmissions do not have much impact, it is usually
the RX operators system doing all the work.
g3kev
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 10:15
AM
Subject: LF: 472kHz Bandplan or
whatever
Hi Mal,
Re your comment:-
Those shouting most and _expression_ opinions about LF and
MF are never heard on the bands.
Surely equal weight should be given to the
opinions of those who just listen or run QRP? I have been running 1W RF on the
band since January, probably well below your RX threshold, and working a
couple of 'locals' regularly. So my opinion doesn't count in your
book?
Rik has come up with the most logical suggestion
so far. We really do need some sort of organisation on the band, all be it of
the 'light touch' variety.
My feeling (which apparently probably doesn't
count) is, modes with long carriers should be near the band edges, ideally
QRSS near the bottom and others near the top. Filters easily resolve the issue
of QRSS being close to faster CW, as you, Mal, pointed out to me some years
ago.
Criticising suggestions is all very well, but it
would be better if such criticism was supported by reasoned argument or a
better proposal.
On another point, someone commented about the
'Subject' in e-mails to this site. I entirely agree with what was said. Not
only the mode under discussion, but it has been confusing sometimes in the
past when the band is not specified either in the 'Subject', or
even the content!
Vy 73,
Chris,
G4AYT.
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