I can’t believe that so many (wellknown) operators are transmitting out of band just to get a SOTA qso in the log …
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This is not a bit out of band such as people stupidly using 14.350 USB. It’s 40kHz out of band.
The activation and chases will be deleted.
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Where is the activator located? I thought 20m finished at 14.35 in every ITU region?
Most commercially built radios won’t let you transmit at 14.390! Only homebrew ones might.
Was this a typo in the subject title Martin? rather than “SOTA Pile-Up on 14.390” did you mean the write “SOTA Pile-Up on 14.350” - where those operating would have their upper sideband out of band?
73 Ed.
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That is the point Ed. There was a spot from a YU station at 14.390
Someone did not do the homework on bandplan …
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I saw a spot earlier today on .377 in Italy.
Were these stations actually heard on this frequency or are they just typos? I see lots of spots on strange frequencies - I’ve always assumed they were just mistakes.
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Hi Joe (x2),
CRIKEY! What is going on? A basic requirement of a LICENCED operator is to know which frequencies they may operate on!
Serbia (YU) has a new bandplan introduced this year but I don’t believe they have an extended 20m frequency range outside of international limits.
Ratel
Italy definitely still stops 20m at 14.350MHz.
73 Ed.
UPDATE: I have just searched the last 24 hours of SOTAWatch and can’t find 14.390 anywhere and the entries there for YU stations were definitely on legal frequencies. Has someone removed the spots?
There are about seven chasers about to learn the bandplan 
I’ve spoken with the activator and he has admitted his mistake and it won’t happen again. He did change frequency later on so there are ten valid chases.
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If it were only the bandplan that would not be so bad - these seven chasers have broken the terms of their licence (albeit accidentally) operating outside of the frequencies they are licensed for.
S**t happens!
Ed.
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My homebrew rigs won’t let me transmit out of band.
It’s easy to wideband most modern commercial rigs and I suspect many have done so to give access to 60m.
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Hello,
I think I called the station that was operating out of band first. I had seen the spot while I was on 15 meters, and thinking of 15 meters I thought of the end of the band at 450 instead of 350. I made a bad mistake and I apologize for it.
I realized immediately after while the pileup was starting that the station was out of band.
I immediately deleted the qso from VK-port-a log. The mistake was caused by the rush to arrive before the mass of chasers, as I almost always do to do a S2S.
S**t happens, but sometimes mistakes are made in good faith.
Never again.
73 Fabio
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That’s pretty much a requirement for all Yaesu radios, otherwise you can only use very specific memories, which for what it’s worth don’t include the FT8 frequency.
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