[Elecraft] KRC2 first!
Bob Nielsen
[email protected]
Thu May 15 22:56:01 2003
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:36:37PM -0500, George, W5YR 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?
>
> Anybody know?
I'm 99% sure that the FCC wants any emissions to be contained within
the assigned center frequency +/- 1.4 kHz. After all, we don't
(hopefully) set our dials to 14349.9 and operate USB on 20 meters.
Bob, N7XY