[CW] Two New Amateur Bands

Fri Mar 31 23:18:03 EDT 2017

Hello Rolfe et al

Hope all is good over there & that you are managing to control your
excitement as you wait for your soldering irons to heat up!

Congrats. I am pleased to hear of your allocations & while it is easy to
dismiss them for a variety of reasons, I am able to share that I only work
2200-630-160m bands, home station and portable.

When portable, I run microwatts into a 33ft top loaded vertical over aviary
wire mesh earth-mats. 

Best daytime DX (which means "distance" NOT "foreign country" of course) so
far is 35 miles on 2200m (& that gave me a real buzz BTW!!!), 231 miles on
630m & 850 miles on 160m, all Cootie key CW!!

I do better from the home station with a 170ft Inv-L @ 36ft high, triple
capacity hat wires & over 60 radials (was featured in RSGB RadCom Oct/Nov
2015 as a 2-part complete construction project).

Two books I wrote June 2016 & March 2017 were intended to stimulate interest
on those 3 low bands. I have taken the liberty of attaching some front cover
shots in case that can excite you too!!!

:-)

Copies have sold to Canada, the USA, Belgium, France, Ireland, England, NZ &
all States of VK. 

Very unfortunately we Down Under are too far away to work you on 2200 or
630m BUT I have been successful in working Stateside, Japan & the UK on 160m
using 5W from a Ten Tec 535 Argonaut II into the same Inv-L in the past
month.

Have faith, brothers & sisters, & give it a shot.the fun is also in the
journey not only a destination.

Vy best 73 de Doc/VK5BUG (on low bands CW at sea & ashore since 1964)

  _____  

From: CW [mailto:cw-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Rolfe Tessem
Sent: Saturday, 1 April 2017 1:25 PM
To: CW Reflector
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

--

Rolfe Tessem

Lucky Duck Productions, Inc.

rolfe at ldp.com

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"T

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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