[CW] Two New Amateur Bands

Fri Mar 31 23:17:34 EDT 2017

Dave,

On 630m the power limit is 5W EiRP (about 3W ERP).

On 2200m it is 1W EiRP (.6W ERP).

73, de HB

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 20:11 D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
>
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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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