[CW] Two New Amateur Bands

[Radio K0HB]

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.
>
>
>
>
> N7DC at ARRL.NET
> Ex WN5QMX,WA5UKR,ET2US,ET3USA,SV0WPP,VS6DD,N7DC/YV5/G5CTB
> QSL Bureau, DIRECT, LOTW Preferred, eQSL used but upload at a courtesy
> only, as do not use the system for awards.
>
> 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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73, de Hans, K0HB
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