[HCARC] Abandoning 10 meter rag chew?

Sun Sep 2 10:51:45 EDT 2012

I have never heard of these frequencies in any of the stuff I have read on Ham radio.  It surely isn't listed on the ARRL Band Plan.  I wonder why??

I will check them out.  Thanks.  Anyne know a link to learn about these Freqs??

Gary J
N5"BAA"
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bob Richie 
  To: Gary and Arlene Johnson 
  Cc: HCARC Reflector 
  Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 9:31 AM
  Subject: Re: [HCARC] Abandoning 10 meter rag chew?

  Gary, there is a group of legal frequencies between 26.965 and 27.405 wherein hams are permitted to talk to other hams or even non hams.. These are discussed in CFR 47 Part 95. Ham radio is covered in CFR 47 Part 97. One frequency , 27.065, is reserved for emergency communications or traveler assistance. Some hams use these frequencies while traveling because of the great silence on 146.52. I have only heard a part of a QSO on 146.52 so I no longer even bother with it. There are specific rules covering the use of the frequencies from 26.965 to 27.405 such as power, antenna height, length of QSO, etc. hi

  Bob
  K5YB
  Kerrville, TX 78028

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  From: Gary and Arlene Johnson <qltfnish at omniglobal.net>
  To: Bob Richie <bob.k5yb at yahoo.com> 
  Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2012 11:09 PM
  Subject: Re: [HCARC] Abandoning 10 meter rag chew?

  Whose frequency is 27.185 for???  28-29.7 is 10 meters, and 24.89-24.99 is 12 meters.  What approved Band is 27.185 mhz???  Or is it a typo??

  Gary J
  N5"BAA"
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Bob Richie 
    To: Gary and Arlene Johnson ; ccrobins at ktc.com 
    Cc: hcarc at mailman.qth.net 
    Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 10:11 PM
    Subject: Re: [HCARC] Abandoning 10 meter rag chew?

    27.185 MHz is pretty good for local communications.

    Bob
    K5YB
    Kerrville, TX 78028

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    From: Gary and Arlene Johnson <qltfnish at omniglobal.net>
    To: ccrobins at ktc.com 
    Cc: hcarc at mailman.qth.net 
    Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2012 9:10 PM
    Subject: Re: [HCARC] Abandoning 10 meter rag chew?

    I hate to rain on this parade, but has anyone done a study/poll of the techs 
    in the club that don't have access to a spouse who is a General or above and 
    has access to the HF bands above 10 meters that way, or if no spouse, has 
    access to a radio that will transmit on 10 meters SSB??  I suspect this 
    number is very small.  IF a Tech were going to go out and procure a radio 
    that could transmit on HF SSB, and erect an antenna to do likewise, isn't it 
    reasonable to also think that the same Tech would be in the process of 
    upgrading to General so that he/she had full use of all the bands in HF to 
    utilize this "new" radio on??  I realize that there are some Techs who have 
    been coming down to the Club Station and getting on the air with Gale. 
    However, those Techs are not restricted to 10 meters if Gale is present as 
    they can use him as the Control Operator and can go anywhere on HF.  I know 
    what a great service Gale provides, I have taken advantage of this service 
    myself.\

    If I were a Tech looking at this whole exercise from a "Should I bother to 
    upgrade point of view", I could logically conclude it's not worth my time 
    and effort, since the HF band test results to date won't even let me talk to 
    my friends locally.

    What we should be concentrating on, in my never quite humble enough opinion 
    is finding out which Frequencies we can reliably communicate locally using 
    HF and getting good at doing that vs trying to restrict ourselves to any one 
    set of Frequencies.  Who knows, there might be a day when we need to use HF 
    to communicate locally.

    If I have stepped on any toes, I apologise in advance.

    Gary J
    N5"BAA"

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: "Charley & Peggy Robinson" <ccrobins at ktc.com>
    To: <hcarc at mailman.qth.net>
    Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 3:03 PM
    Subject: [HCARC] Abandoning 10 meter rag chew?

    > All,
    >
    > I've been enthusiastic about the 10 meter rag chew idea because I liked
    > Gale's idea of getting  the tech class operators involved in working on
    > HF.  I was enthusiastic enough to erect a 10 meter dipole in several
    > configurations and I'm still moving it around in an effort to get out
    > better to the the Harper & F'burg area.  I missed out last Wednesday
    > evening (my bad) after the last redeployment.  Thinking about putting it
    > on the roof temporarily next.
    >
    > Now, once again, there's a movement to abandon the 10 meter band because
    > of "propagation difficulties."  I submit that the "difficulties" could
    > very well be because of inadequate antennae - mine included.  I plan to
    > work on better antenna deployment instead of abandoning the original
    > idea of trying to motivate the techs to get on HF.
    >
    > 73,
    >
    > Charley
    > af5ao
    >
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