[Johnson] 12 meters with the Ranger

Sherrill E. Watkins SEWATKINS at dgs.state.va.us
Wed Jul 14 14:52:43 EDT 2004


Kevin: Sorry; I do not understand your last paragraph? I thought AM was
prohibited on both 30 and 60 meters? Is it legal on 60 meters? -Sherrill W.
k4own

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin J Ward [mailto:kevin_ward at juno.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 5:06 PM
To: johnson at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Johnson] 12 meters with the Ranger



Ooops!  As Glen (and a few others) have patiently pointed out, I goofed. 
I would have responded sooner but it took me a couple days to get my foot out
of my mouth.  It was in pretty deep!

I took the time to run the whole thing back through the "confuser" as we say,
to figure out where I got the idea about AM on the WARC bands in the first
place.  I finally came to the conclusion that it stems from the process that
created those bands.  Some of the NPRM responders had suggested that the WARC
bands, small as they are, not be subjected to contest operation or bandwidth
extravagant emission types.  The suggestion that made sense to me then (and
now) was to allow only CW, other data modes, and SSB.  I reasoned that a
narrow band should be limited to narrow bandwidth signals.  But that isn't
how things turned out.

Oh, someone responded that the only band on which AM operation is not allowed
is 60-meters.  That's not strictly true.  Only one or two countries permit
phone operation of any kind on 30-meters.  No, I don't remember which
countries.  The US is not one of them.  

Kevin  N2IE

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