[Lowfer] Re: 600MRG> LF usage question

[Phil Kane]

On Thu, 16 May 2002 16:38:28 -0500 (CDT), Bob Roehrig wrote:

>
>In reading the FCC proposal re: a ham band at 2200 meters, they say there
>is at present one coast station in the U.S. (for communicating with ships
>in the Pacific). Has anyone heard this station or know who it is?

  At the last official FCC inspection of KPH about 20+ years ago, I
  observed that they were still licensed for a LF-band frequency
  although it had not been in use nor was there any equipment in place
  for several decades before that.

  Knowing the strategies of the then-licensee, the RCA Frequency
  Bureau, they would have fought tooth-and-nail to keep it on the
  license whether it was in use or not.  We can only guess that those
  freuqences went over to Globe Wireless when the latter took over
  KPH's freqencies.

  In its infinite wisdom, my dear former employer (the FCC) cares only
  what is on the license, not what is in use.

  Of course I could be 100% wrong.......

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   73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

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   Beaverton (Washington County)  Oregon

   Retired and loving every minute of it....
   Work was getting in the way of my hobbies