Hi, Dave. Your reasoning sounds good. I am not a RTTY guy and assumed that
7040 would not be a good place for that. I rarely hear it there, but what
the heck. With all the activity on 7040, doesn't that hose up the RTTY? I'd
think you would want some essentially vacant freqs. Have fun on 7040.
73 de Jim, W7LS
At 12:03 AM 2/12/97 -0600, you wrote:
>Jim W7LS wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Ed. I agree that frequency policemen hack me off, too. Since you have
>> done RTTY for years, you obviously know where the RTTY action is. You must
>> know that 7040 is not a usual freq for RTTY. Why do you want to do RTTY in
>> such an unusual place?
>
>Jim, no offense but in most of the world, RTTY operations take place
>between 7030 and 7040. For example, throughout Europe, RTTY is not
>allowed and would be fruitless up where we operate here in the states
>because European phone band is between 7050 and 7100. Rest of 40 meters
>is pretty much worthless to them due to International broadcasting which
>"shares" the band.
>
>During RTTY contests, many of the 40 meter contacts between the US and
>Europe and Africa occur around 7040. It cant be too "unusual" a
>frequency. K3MM was the station on 7040 Sunday afternoon and he is
>apparently the winner of last weekends contest, with more than 1200
>qsos. If he was so far from normal rtty frequencies he would not have
>made more than 500 of these on forty meters.
>
>73 de Dave, N0IT
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