[K6BW] Fire Up the AM Transmitter for the Dec 15 Bandwarming party

[Steve Johnson]

Great, What happened to Novice CW bands?
--- Bill Smith <hbco2 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Thanks for the info.  :-)
> 
> Bill
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Rem 
> To: Hamilton Hams, Piggies and hamsters -Oh My! 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:52 AM
> Subject: [K6BW] Fire Up the AM Transmitter for the
> Dec 15 Bandwarming party
> 
> 
> I found this on QRZ
> 
> Rem
> K6BBQ
> 
> 
> December 15th band-warming party
> 
> Vintage radio hobbyists in the United States will
> celebrate the federal 
> goverment's expansion of the 75 meter phone band
> with a 'bandwarming' 
> party from 3600-3800Kc starting at 0500 GMT Dec. 15,
> 2006.
> 
> The festivities are slated to begin Thursday evening
> December 14th, when 
> vintage radio enthusiasts in Canada will gather
> around several 
> frequencies between 3700-3800, where they already
> enjoy phone privileges.
> 
> The Federal Communications Commission, as part of a
> decision to enlarge 
> and more closely match the size of the 75 meter
> phone band with levels 
> of activity, has specified enactment at midnight,
> Eastern time.
> 
> A number of U.S. stations have been granted the use
> of Special Event 1x1 
> Call Signs to help commemorate the regulatory
> upgrade.
> 
> By coincidence, December 2006 marks 100 years since
> radio pioneer 
> experimenter Reginald Fesseden's celebrated
> Amplitude Modulation 
> broadcasts, considered by many to be the first voice
> and music signals 
> to be heard by the public audience for wireless.
> 
> The 'bandwarming' of 2006 will again feature the AM
> mode, as vintage 
> radio enthusiasts warm up their vacuum tube gear on
> a December night a 
> century later.
> 
> 
> For more information:
> http://amfone.net
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   73 KI6ADA
  Steve Johnson