[Elecraft] KRC2 first!

Thu May 15 17:29:01 2003

While it may not be an exactly parallel situation, when I first became a
ham, 160 was severely restricted.  There were varying low power limits
depending on frequency and station location and some parts of the band
were off limits in some localities.  Loran was everywhere.  Gradually
that improved to what we have today.  I do think that there may well be
more privileges as time goes on but we will have to be patient and see.

W8FU

-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Yingst [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 2:47 PM
To: George, W5YR; Sandy W5TVW; Bruce D. McLaughlin; Jack Brindle
Cc: 'Daniel Reynolds'; 'Thom LaCosta'; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KRC2 first!

I agree

I think it is great that they have allowed us to have those frequencies
at all.

As anyone has seen from the commercial side of the house spectrum is
very valuable.

The mere fact that they gave us any at all is fantastic.

2.8 USB is the standard and I can understand why they would want to put
the same constraints on us, as the incumbents there now.

And if we behave ourselves he will probably get more as they find other
spots to move the existing users to.

--- "George,  W5YR" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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!"
> <mailto:[email protected]>
> 
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=====
Harry - AB2PN

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