KØHB wrote:
"Dee Flint" wrote

Why? There is nothing there that is harmful to CW in the least.

As others here have pointed out, the current cw/rtty/data 225kHz segment between
3525-3750 is being compressed to just 75kHz between 3525-3600. That's a 3:1
compression ratio.

Now before you start your chant about "CW can transmit anywhere", consider that
this R&O puts 25% of the 75/80m band in the exclusive hands of Extras and
another 20% in the exclusive hands of Extra/Advanced. So almost half of the
band isn't available under *any mode* to Generals. As Iitoi pointed out, 80m CW
has long been a hotbed of public service and traffic handling nets (which depend
on Generals for manpower) --- good luck on this one now!

Somebody somewhere wrote "This is Incentive Licensing all over again".

73, de Hans, K0HB

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