Andy, Here in Singapore the government has historically only allowed us to use 7.000 to 7.100 on 40 m. Interestingly, I found out that the CW vs. SSB sub-bands are not mandated by the government. They don't care about that. So we just go by the IARU Region 3 Bandplan that says the Phone sub-band starts at 7.030.
Just a while ago the Singapore government allowed us to go up to 7.200, using 7.100 to 7.200 as a secondary service as long as we stayed off 7.135, 7.160 and 7.170. During the ARRL DX SBB contest I could therefore have finally worked a US station simplex in that part of the band. Funny though, the only ones I worked on 40m were the ones I worked as they worked split, listening for the Japanese stations in the 7.050 to 7.100 area since the Japanese stations still cannot go above 7.100. Bob, 9V1QQ - -- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is just me? Recently I have noticed a lot of people using those > wide bandwidth devices that produce voice signals. microphones are > what they are called, around 7070-75 and 14070-77. I did not use to > hear them so often. It is not just USA hams. so did something else > change other than the recent USA band changes ? last night 7070-7075 > was full of them. > -- > Andy K3UK > Skype Me : callto://andyobrien73 > www.obriensweb.com >
