[SARC] What is the General Band Pland for 20 meters ??

[waynea at andycable.com]

This is commonly known as you have to allocate the bandwidth for your transmission when factoring into where you are operating at. This is something that was taught at our Field Day Excersizes and is mentioned in a few study guides.

--Wayne

Wayne Alday
System Administrator
ComTIA A+ / Net+ Certified
TV Cable Company of Andalusia, Inc


------Original Mail------
From: "Chris Johns" <ki4ggh at yahoo.com>
To: "South Alabama Radio Club" <sarc at oppcatv.com>
Sent: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 17:56:59 -0700 PDT
Subject: [SARC] What is the General Band Pland for 20 meters ??

Hi SARC,

What is the General Band Pland for 20 meters ?? Does the 20 meter meter segment for voice start at 14.225 ?? and does the voice segment end at 14.350 ??

If you answered Yes to the above you are partly right. This is a trick question. I had to find out the answer the hard way.

One night last week I was on 14.225 according to my radio dial trying to respond to a DX call from Brazil. There was a huge pile up. I never made contact with him with only 100 watts and a tribander beam aimed South. I attempted about 7 times to make contact and gave up and moved off 14.225 to look for more DX. I didn't think nothing of it until I received a QSL card from another Ham in New Jersey. 

Why would a Ham in New Jersey send me a qsl card when I was trying to make contact with a DX station in Brazil. It turns out that the Ham in New Jersey is part of the " ARRL Official Observer Program". This ham in New Jersey heard me calling on 14.225 and sent me a card that stated I could not operate on 14.225 with my General License. What ?

Part of my USB signal drifted into the Extra band according to the observer. It is not like I was using an old radio where the read out was wrong. 

It turns I was in violation of FCC Rule 97.307b. To sum up 97.307b it states that my signal can not go over into the Extra Band because I am not licensed as a Extra. I was advised by this observer in New Jersey that I must be 3khz from the band edges. So the REAL and Correct answer to the above is I must operate as well as any other General is between 14.228 and 14.340 for voice. 

This brings up another question. If someone uses an amp at legal limit how far from the edges should they move ?? and how would you know how far to move if your amp is 300 watts vs legal limit. 

It is a stupid rule if you ask me. I'm sure there is some reason behind it. 

So you better watch out when you get on the HF bands. Extra and General class operators could be out of band and not know it. Generals have to watch the top and bottom of the band. Extras only have to watch the top of the band unless they move to the bottom of the General Band. 

73's
Chris
KI4GGH






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