[Elecraft] KRC2 first!

[George, W5YR]

Sandy, for the time being we are "guests" sharing a band already in use by
another service. Our privileges and requirements have been set in order to
promote minimum friction between the two services.

I really doubt that anyone at the FCC sat down and wrote down a list of
nasty things to do to the Amateur Service. I see the situation - which has
several factors that I dislike and hope will change with time - as one of
"accommodation now" and if we can all play nicely with our neighbors, then I
bet anything that we find ourselves with extended privileges.

I suspect that our neighbors all use USB in 2.8 KHz channels and that is the
basis for that part. The 50 watts ERP is, I think, an effort to ensure that
none of the KW+ gang "take over" any of the channels and splatter all over
the other folks' channels.

In any event, we are about to have something we have never had before, even
though many of us are disappointed with the details. But, at least, they are
still in the amateur service and we are not held to Type Acceptance,
specified frequency tolerances, etc. as are our commercial brethren.

I suggest patience and "wait and see" before we get too irate . . .

So far, the unanswered question is what those channel frequencies mean! It
is commonplace in the government services to specify the *center frequency*
of an occupied bandwidth. In the
Amateur Service, we define our SSB frequencies in terms of the suppressed
carrier frequency which is on one side of the passband.

So, is 5348 KHz where we set the dial to use that channel or do we set the
dial 1.4 KHz lower?

Anybody know?

73/72, George
Amateur Radio W5YR -  the Yellow Rose of Texas
Fairview, TX 30 mi NE of Dallas in Collin county EM13QE
"In the 57th year and it just keeps getting better!"
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