[Elecraft] Exact 5 MHz Channel Frequencies (was KRC2 first!)

[Harry Yingst]

They also need to make sure there only 2.8 kc wide



--- "George,  W5YR" <w5yr@att.net> wrote:
> Thanks, Mike - that is why I raised the question.
> 
> I suspect that hams in general will get off to a rough start with the
> FCC
> and our new neighbors unless the word is seriously spread - ARRL
> should do
> that, I agree.
> 
> Ed, I know you are busy but you are the only name I know at ARRL that
> will
> see that this gets done. If it doesn't . . . you don't want to 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:w5yr@att.net>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Morrow, Michael A." <mamorrow@tva.gov>
> To: <w5yr@att.net>
> Cc: <elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 3:07 PM
> Subject: [Elecraft] Exact 5 MHz Channel Frequencies (was KRC2 first!)
> 
> 
> George wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> George,
> 
> From the FCC website at:
> 
> http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-03-105A1.doc
> 
> "NTIA has reviewed its assignments and has found that 5 channels are
> lightly
> used and could be used on a secondary basis by amateur stations...We
> also
> concur with NTIA's basic proposals that amateur service operations on
> these
> channels be limited to SSB-SC modulation, upper sideband voice
> transmissions
> only, with power not to exceed equivalent of 50 W PEP transmitter
> output
> power into an antenna with a gain of 0 dBd, or 50 W e.r.p. 
> Accordingly, we
> are amending sections 2.106, and 97.303 of our rules to provide a
> secondary
> allocation to the amateur service on the channels 5332 kHz, 5348 kHz,
> 5368
> kHz, 5373 kHz and 5405 kHz as specified by NTIA, and to require that
> amateur
> operations be limited to an effective radiated power (e.r.p.) of 50
> W, and
> emission type 2K8J3E, upper sideband voice transmissions only
> centered on
> each frequency."
> ------------------------------------
> 
> So it seems from the last sentence above, that the actual indicated
> suppressed carrier frequencies of the five channels will need to be
> 1.4 kHz
> below the listed channel center frequencies (i.e., 5330.6, 5346.6,
> 5366.6,
> 5371.6, 5403.6 kHz).  I wonder how well that will be recognized and
> observed
> by the amateur community.  The ARRL had better emphasize that point,
> as
> alien as it is to most hams.
> 
> 73,
> Mike / KK5F
> 
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Harry - AB2PN

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