[Boatanchors] [Bulk] Re: ARRL Band Plan

[pmarkavage at juno.com]

Jim:
The phone band is from 3600 to 4000 KHz.
http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Regulatory/Band%20Chart/Hambands_color.pdf
And, as far as I can tell, no one is proposing altering space just for
contests. Where did you get that?

Pete, wa2cwa

On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 22:03:05 -0500 "Jim Wilhite" <w5jo at brightok.net>
writes:
> Not wishing to be argumentative but why would we want to alter the 
> band 
> space just for contests?  I regularly monitor 80 meters and 40 
> digital modes 
> but do not see a level of activity that merits additional space, 
> except as 
> you say during contests.
> 
> I do see a lot of activity between 3.8 and 4.0 but it is all SSB and 
> they 
> are every 1.5 to 2 Kc apart.   Probably that is because so many hams 
> have 
> General licenses and when in a round table the group would have 
> several who 
> cannot go below 3.8 Mc.  To me that would be a good argument for 
> expanding 
> the space for SSB down to at least 3.7 to better utilize the band, 
> if not 
> all the way to 3.6.
> 
> Jim
> W5JO
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> 
> 
> How would you even define "busy"? there's a lot of variables. 
> Suppose
> there were a 1000 amateurs on the air between 3600 and 3900. Because 
> I
> may not in their skip zone or conditions don't favor me with decent
> reception, I only hear 50 of them. I would say the band is not busy 
> yet
> there are 950 of them out there on the air that I can't hear.
> 
> If you really want to detect "busy", "lots of use", "crowded 
> conditions",
> etc. get on the air during a contest.
> 
> Counting activeness is sort of like trying to count dust particles 
> blowing
> through your back yard.
> 
> Pete, wa2cwa
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 18:06:24 -0400 LM Picard <lmpicard at rogers.com>
> writes:
> > Just curious.  Does anyone have any data on just how crowed the 
> bands
> >
> > are?  What fraction of the band allocations are "busy" at any
> > particular
> > time.
> >
> > The ranks of active hams seem to be thinning out.  Or am I wrong?
> >
> > Saw an article somewhere that shows that the average age of 
> licensed
> >
> > hams keeps rising.  That is there are relatively few young people
> > getting licensed.  The few young people interested in a technical
> > hobby
> > seem to be into computer gaming, overclocking, writing cell phone
> > apps etc.
> >
> > On 12/04/2015 5:33 PM, Bry Carling wrote:
> > > If you have an Extra yes CW US ALLOWED anywhere but quite a few
> > areas you will only have QSOs with other extras nowadays since
> > everyone else has lost some CW spectrum in recent years.
> > >
> > > If we are not vigilant they may well lose more.
> > >
> > > Best regards - Brian Carling
> 
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