[CW] Two New Amateur Bands 630 Meters Practical for Hams?

Sat Apr 1 11:14:09 EDT 2017

Rolfe asked

>what can you realistically do with 5 watts on 600 meters?

I wrote an article on this topic a year or so ago... it seeks to answer the question "Is 630 Meters Practical for Hams?"

http://www.wd8das.net/630mPractical.pdf

I was running less than 1 watt calculated EIRP to a wire antenna on a suburban lot.

Steve WD8DAS

sbjohnston at aol.com
http://www.wd8das.net/
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rolfe Tessem <rolfe at ldp.com>
To: CW Reflector <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Fri, Mar 31, 2017 9:56 pm
Subject: Re: [CW] Two New Amateur Bands

I ask this question in all naivety -- what can you realistically do with 5 watts on 600 meters?

Rolfe
W1VC

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On Mar 31, 2017, at 10:19 PM, Radio K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:

I can recall the day when a new assigned ham band meant we all broke out our soldering equipment, our Triplett VOM, and our junk box.

I guess you guys have outgrown that boyish hobby.  Easier to complain.  A damn shame.

De HANS, K0HB
"Just a Boy and his Radio"™

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 18:14 Danny Douglas <n7dc at comcast.net> wrote:

Yeah, Ill rush right out and spend a couple thousand bucks for a radio that can get me over a couple of counties (if lucky).  Id much rather they gave us a band at 60, instead of 5 freqs.  At least most of the newer rigs can expand to that.  I got it, when I expanded mine at the time I sent it in to fix a tuner knob problem.  If you saw the ifs ands and butts, you have to be a certain distance from other hams, from those little computer reading chips that control electricity, etc. etc. etc.  Pain in the ass. 

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On March 30, 2017 at 10:18 PM "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:

John Dilks sends in info on two new amateur bands just approved.

73

DR

FYI

 73, John Dilks, K2TQN
 Having fun smelling hot rosin and solder again.

> Date: March 30, 2017 at 6:52 PM
 > Subject: FCC Approves Two New Amateur Bands
 >
 > VIA EPA Section- WB3W
 > The FCC has just published Order 17-33A1 that adopts rules to implement
 > certain radio frequency allocation decisions from the World
 > Radiocommunication Conference (Geneva, 2012) (WRC-12) and conforms the
 > United States  rules to the WRC-12 Final Acts.
 >
 > The FCC order addresses five band changes including one that has added
 > two new bands to our Amateur Radio Service.
 >
 > The one provision that pertains to the Amateur Service is to:
 >
 > Allocate the 472-479 kHz band to the amateur service on a secondary
 > basis and amend
 > Part 97 to provide for amateur service use of this band and of the
 > 135.7-137.8 kHz band.
 >
 > There are some restrictions that apply. To read the entire FCC 10-33
 > order in pdf format and see the details of the new band allocations
 > just click this link:
 > http://epa-arrl.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/FCC-17-33A1.pdf
 >
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 >

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