[Lowfer] Re: 600MRG> LF usage question
Sandy, W5TVW
[email protected]
Thu, 16 May 2002 19:03:03 -0500
From I gather from a couple of old time "Sparkies", the LF frequencies haven't been
used by any coast station actively since around 1947-48. The band was primarily
one that HF telegraphy replaced. The last LF transmitter recalled by these guys was
the old RCA rig using 211 tubes. (MOPA and self rectifying oscillator using
800 cycle AC)
I think it is mostly a matter of "hanging on" to the licenses.
73,
Sandy W5TVW
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Kane" <[email protected]>
To: "lowfer" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: 600MRG> LF usage question
| On Thu, 16 May 2002 15:44:01 -0700 (PDT), Phil Kane wrote:
|
| > 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.
| >
| Checking the xurrent KPH license (issued Oct. 2001, expires April
| 2011), Globe Wireless is licensed for a facility at the old VOA
| receiving site at Flannery Rd. and Hwy 113, Rio Vista, CA - NOT
| the old VOA transmitting site near the Navy's NPG transmitting
| site in Dixon, CA. The following LF/MF facilities are licensed
| for that location:
|
| Freq. Emission Power
| kHz Type KW
| ~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~
| 126.15 A1A, F1B 10 A1A = manual Morse
| 143.0 A1A 10 F1B = SITOR FSK
| 147.65 A1A, F1B 10 A2B = MCW
|
| 426 A1A, F1B 20
| 455.5 F1B 20
| 460 A1A. F1B 20
| 500 A1A. A2B 20
|
| Globe Wireless' other station, KFS, also in the San Francisco
| area, does not have any LF frequencies assigned.
|
| ---
| 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
|
| From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
| Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon
|
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