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Originally Posted by Dee Flint
Besides that, generally the only time the CW ops go as high as 3.600 is
during a contest.
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You couldn't be more wrong, Dee, even if you deliberately tried!
Have a look at your Net Directory. By my count there are nearly a thousand net sessions weekly in the 3600-3750 segment, mostly NTS/public service/traffic handlers/emergency training/CW training. This band segment (popular over all others with nets) was chosen for some very specific reasons, not the least of which because NVIS provides excellent and reliable short-to-mid-range characteristics not common on any other band.
FCC has chosen to relocate all those beneficial users below 3600, and give that space to the Extras and Advanced phone users complaining about their lumbago and hemerroids, the "Liberty Knet", and similar 'high value' uses. 80m phone has long been known as the cesspool of HF ham radio, and the FCC has chosen to almost double it's allocation.
Now isn't that interesting!
The Man in the Maze
QRL on Baboquivari Peak, AZ