[Elecraft] KRC2 first!

Thu May 15 23:58:01 2003

I think you are right, especially after reading the FCC fine print. I asked
Ed Hare to get someone at ARRL busy publicizing that we *don't* set our
dials to the frequencies in the FCC R&O and he says they are really working
on it.

Be a shame to start this one off with everyone in some else's channel!

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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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Nielsen" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KRC2 first!

> 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
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