L. M. Rappaport wrote in
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I guess I just have to disagree. I still use cw occasionally, and
then like to stay in that bottom 25 khz of the band where the traffic
and qrm is light. I have no quarrel with those of you who think
that using that segment isn't worth the effort, but please don't
generalize about extra class license holders. At least don't
generalize without evidence.
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Oh, I've never said CW should be eliminated. It's part of ham radio
antiquity. I do advocate, as part of the stupid bandplan caste system's
demise and a switch to one ham license for all, that CW be CONFINED to the
bottom 25 Khz of each band, because up in the phone bands the only reason
they pound away on CW is to use it as a phone band jamming device. Use CW
in the phone bands and we bust your chops for $10K, no exceptions. CW
should NOT have access to the entire band because of the way the old
codgers use it for jamming. Problem solved. REAL CW operators only use
the bottom of the bands, anyways.

One place I'd like to see the bands change for obvious technical reasons is
10 meters. It is very hard to put a 10M FM repeater up because the FM is
confined to such a small part of the band that 100 Khz is all the
separation possible. This makes duplexing terribly costly. A more sane
bandplan, which only needs FCC to DE-regulate 10M from this archaic
nonsense, would be if the FMers were to have repeater inputs at the top of
the band, say 29.2 to 29.7, and repeater outputs down in the CB DX band
from 28.0 to 28.5. This much wider split would allow us repeater
operations on 10M that didn't cost as much as a Lexus. 10M FM is great fun
on DX repeaters when the bands are open. Move the simplex modes, including
CW up the band 500 Khz, which makes no difference in their operations at
all, once you get past the "we always done it this way" nonsense and egos.

ARRL sponsored segregation of one ham being "better" in some stupid,
artificial way, like just because he was on the air and grandfathered in as
an Extra when the ARRL sponsored segregation started, causes a lot of
childish jealousy and friction. Many, not all but many ego-inflated Extras
cause a lot of trouble and friction for the vast army of good hams, running
many of them off the band who don't wish to play such games. Ham radio
suffers from this nonsense and needs to end it before it dies of old age.
ARRL simply perpetuates these flaws with their business-as-usual stance.
FCC has become more independent of ARRL influence, noticing how few members
ARRL now has. It's a step in the right direction....(c;

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Larry