<div dir="auto"><div>Can someone educate me on what a CW reserved/exclusive frequency is on 40 meters? I thought part 97 said you could CW anywhere on 40m but were limited on rtty/data to 7.000-7.125. What am I missing?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards,</div><div dir="auto">David</div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 22:33 Joseph Benoit via BVARC <<a href="mailto:bvarc@bvarc.org">bvarc@bvarc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Read the rules again. FT8 is a digital mode and can be used anywhere but CW-exclusive segments. DX stations (and their respondents) frequently operate on away fro busy "FT8" frequencies.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 9:51 PM Kori Rahman via BVARC <<a href="mailto:bvarc@bvarc.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">bvarc@bvarc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>FT8 only operates on a single frequency on each band,(some bands like 6m etc have two defaults but only one is usually used). There are alternate frequencies for a version of FT8, called JS8Call but that's limited too</div><div dir="auto"> For 40m FT8 takes place on 7.074MHz USB, and JS8Call is on 7.078 MHz USB).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My only guess is that it's one person either with no idea what they're doing, or with insufficient harmonic suppression...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">All that to say: Are you sure it's FT8? Because a lot of other modes sound similar. Especially FSK modes like RTTY... Anything that uses Frequency shifting. I guess packet is possible too. There are HF Winlink stations all over the spectrum. But mostly the upper portion of CW or lower of voice, in the vicinity of FT8 frequencies. If you have a waterfall display you can compare the signal to those on this website: <a href="https://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/index.php/Signal_Identification" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/index.php/Signal_Identification</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hope that helps! 73!</div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br>Kori Rahman, WX5KR<br>Houston POTA, President<br>Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club<br>- Vice-President and Club Call Sign KK5W Trustee<br>Cross Roads Ham Radio Club<br>Fort Bend County EMROG<br>District 14 SW Unit ARES<br>Texas State RACES<br>Cell: (770) 298 8516<br><a href="mailto:Kori113@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">Kori113@gmail.com</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 9:18\u202fPM Jay Davidson via BVARC <<a href="mailto:bvarc@bvarc.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">bvarc@bvarc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Why are people running FT8 right in the middle of CW on 40?<br>
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It\u2019s horrible-overrunning swaths of the band. <br>
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Trying to copy some DX and all I hear under the weak CW tone is someone\u2019s sound card bleeding over. <br>
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7.0650<br>
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I don\u2019t want to hop to FT8 to copy and get their call sign because I\u2019d be just as bad. <br>
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Idk<br>
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73,<br>
KJ5HMX<br>
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