[CW] Two New Amateur Bands

Fri Mar 31 23:10:29 EDT 2017

I believe it's 5W Effective Radiated Power and you can work quite far with
that.

VK5BUG worked as far as New Zealand with his arrangement

http://njdtechnologies.net/trans-atlantic-and-kl7-wspr-spots-return-to-texas-as-we-approach-spring-huh/

73

DR

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:55 PM, Rolfe Tessem <rolfe at ldp.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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