[600MRG] HF-MF band planning

[John Langridge]

>We should maybe consider a DX calling freq?  Most activity will be limited in range so a clear freq. for DX might be good. 

I think the EU's have been heard making CW QSO's on or near 472.5.  I listen to the WebSDR at the University of Twente quite a bit and most EU CW is at the bottom of the band.

As stated earlier, I call higher for the convenience of others.  I don't think most people look down low unless they specifically know someone is going to be there.  Hopefully we will get to a day when we can call CQ without sending an email about being on.

73!

John XIQ





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 From: Edward R Cole <kl7uw at acsalaska.net>
To: WE0H-Mike <we0h at yahoo.com>; 600mrg at w7ekb.com 
Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: [600MRG] HF-MF band planning
 

At 02:18 PM 3/3/2014, WE0H-Mike wrote:
> Make it CW only :-)
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Ah, I disagree with doing that.  If you do that it will stifle what can be accomplished on 630m and likely not enough will migrate to the band to defend it from commercial usurpers.  Once ham radio is authorized we need to populate the band.

However, we that currently occupy the band, have the opportunity to establish preconditioned band usage.  It may be an advantage to reserve a CW-only segment so there is less likelihood of cross mode interference.

We should maybe consider a DX calling freq?  Most activity will be limited in range so a clear freq. for DX might be good.  I'm not sure there is enough real estate for reserved freq. for each mode, but these are good questions for us to consider.  We can provide good steering for a establishing a formal plan.


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