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In a sense the 3600Khz "band edge" simply "aligns" the traditional 80M CW operating space with those spaces on 40 & 20. Both of which are ~100Khz wide as will be the case on 80.
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Good try, Sir, but no cigar. It's not only about CW.
On 40 (including the latest change) CW/rtty/data get 125kHz (42% of the band)
On 20 CW/rtty/data get 150kHz (43% of the band)
On 75/80 (the widest of the three bands in your "alignment" comparison) CW/rtty/data get a mere 100kHz (20%) of the band.
If you consider the ~42% on 40/20 as a "fair share" for CW/rtty/data, then 42% on 80m would put the CW/rtty/data "band edge" just above 3700, fully twice as much space as this partially-baked R&O gives them.
Even K1ZZ could have put a better spin on this than you and the lady from Michigan are doing!
The Man in the Maze
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