I thought WARC rules applied throughout the world.  Maybe these guys are 
bootleg?

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: February 05, 2015 23:12
Subject: Re: 30 meter sideband?


> John,
>
> I thought that was the WARC original ruling.  I've been on 30 since the 
> band
> was opened to hams, even when you could not transmit on something like 109
> to 112 without being ticketed by the FCC and I bet I haven't heard ssb on 
> 30
> more than 3 or 4 times.  All Spanish speaking, too.  I copied Spanish
> speaking rag chews outside all ham bands many times over the years.  I 
> can't
> speak much Spanish other than enough to make the contact and sign out but 
> I
> recognize ham related words in ham conversations on the bands so even 
> those
> I heard out of band, I knew were indeed hams.  I had a missionary friend
> HI8XRM, Dominican Republic, and he told me he could operate ssb anywhere 
> in
> the phone or cw bands.  That was before 30, 17, and 12 were bands of 
> course.
> So maybe there's no restriction outside the U S.
>
> Phil.
> K0nx
>