That's true Skip, it is historical, its a leftover. How many people have we
heard in the last 10 years in Europe, with such a vitally important message,
that when conditions are too poor to continue to use telephony they conclude by
using Morse code ? Er one maybe ?
Mel G0GQK
Skip
You bring up very good points.
I for one would really would like to see a world wide band plan
of CW - PHONE as well as DIGITAL all in the same part of the band.
I just have got feed up with trying to have a digital QSO on 40
while on the same freq some VE is calling CQ on phone.
At some
Well I have to admit I have been guilty of ending a Phone contact in CW if the
contact fell below the noise... just to be polite and say goodbye. We Canadians
are a polite bunch hihi. That was about 20 years ago or more though. It was
actually quite common in Canada to do just that... but I
Well according to the official RAC bandplan:
40M - bandwidth 6 kHz
7.000 7.035 CW
7.035 7.050 Digital
7.040 7.050 Intnl packet
7.050 7.100 SSB
7.100 7.120 Packet R# 2
7.120 7.150 CW
7.150 7.300 SSB +
So that's where the problem lies. It would be nice to have
