[ARC5] T-17 on eBay - 600 meters...

[Jim Falls]

I have a BC-375 that will run there. I have both the tuning unit and the outboard tuna (thanks, Mr. Antonio!). I have a 350' loop around the yard that might work.

Cheers!
Jim K6FWT
CBLA #37

> On Aug 3, 2014, at 9:28, "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 3 Aug 2014 at 8:06, J Mcvey wrote:
>> 
>> What can you do with the transmitters below 160 meters?
> 
> Quite a bit, actually, it turns out.
> 
>> The FCC hasn't 
>> blessed anything except 1 W into a *VERY* short antenna on 2200 meters and
>> "grovel status" applications on 600 meters.
> 
> I don't quite understand what you mean by "grovel status". Please explain.
> 
>> I just bought  a 600 meter R-23 to
>> monitor the experimental stations, but that's about all we can do at the moment.
> 
> Not quite true...
> 
>> When the time comes, a T-15 could be de-tuned a bit lower for this band. Are any
>> of you guys running 600 meter experimental stations?
> 
> Well, I was heavily involved in getting the first 600 meter license back at 
> least 10...maybe 15 years, ago...
> 
> I have a forum, somewhat like this one, the 600 Meter Research Group 
> (600MRG) set up for those of us who have experimental licenses. At the 
> moment, there are over 100 members of the "list" in many countries. I have 
> not counted them lately. I just manage the list.
> 
> There is also a website run by Ralph Hartwell, W5JGV, 500kc.com.
> 
>> If so, how long did it take
>> for approval?
> 
> Once the application was sent in to the FCC, it takes about 3 months to get 
> the license.
> 
>> What was involved in getting it?
> 
> Filling out a bunch of paper work, one of which, and possibly the most 
> important, was explaining what you intend to do with the license. The 
> process is actually fairly easy, and we have complete examples posted to the 
> 500kc.com website on how to do it.
> 
> Authorized power output has been requested, and authorized, from 1 W to 1 
> KW ERP. Even 1 W ERP requires several hundred watts out of the amp into 
> the antennas, since the antenna systems we are able to erect on city-sized 
> lots are horribly inefficient.
> 
> Most active stations are using top-loaded verticals of one kind or another.
> 
> Ranges achieved are, at least to my mind, "unusual" in the extreme. Some of 
> our stations have been consistently copied in such places as Europe and 
> even Oceania.
> 
> One active station in Alaska is consistently copied on the U.S. East Coast. 
> He is authorized 1 W ERP.
> 
> Most countries have authorized their amateurs to operate in portions of the 
> 600 meter band.
> 
> And, the ARRL is actively pushing the FCC to release that band fo regular 
> amateur use.
> 
> In the meantime, everyone I know of who has applied for an "Experimental" 
> license to operate in that band has been issued one.
> 
> I am part of the second series of experimental licenses issued in which 
> something like 35 of us were authorized to operate on the same license. My 
> call there is WD2XSH/24.
> 
> In fact, when I first applied back many years ago, the FCC was MOST 
> supportive of having that band in operation by amateurs.
> 
> The only "fly in the ointment" was the USCG, which, despite having no funds 
> authorized for it, and no real plans, has wanted, for many years, to install 
> some sort of high-accuracy GPS system in that band.
> 
> There is a lot of activity going on there, and we expect the FCC to release 
> the authorized portions (the last WARC conference authorized all member 
> countries to do so) to regular amateurs in the near future.
> 
> Ken W7EKB
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