[Lowfer] VHF Question.

[Paul Daulton]

I seem to remember an article in 73 that described a repeater with 
42mhz in and 49mhz out some ham built for the kids in his neighborhood. 
also a beam for 49 MHz with the transceiver built into the driven 
element. 

Seems like 49mhz was allocated before 84. 465 was allocated back in the 
40's, 11 meters in 58 best I remember. Anyone remember the  Vocaline 
uhf transceivers they had about a 2 block range and would upset garage 
door openers!

In the 50's and 60's six meters was the technicians band, we had FM, AM 
and SSB(in the late 60's). Two meters was not allocated to technician 
class until about FEB 61. I had a novice and technician at the same 
time and operated six with K5WMS and two with Kn5wms. Rule change in 59 
or 60 in nbfm rules dumped tons of lowband gear on the surplus market. 
Local radio club got couple hundred '39 vintage Link two piece rigs 
donated from Forestry Service, these were modified to 50.5mhz. 

Nice to reminiss

Paul


Quoting Warren K2ORS <k2ors at verizon.net>:
> Kurt,
>        I'm not sure why you are asking - are you looking for 49MHz tube
> gear? If so, there is tons of Motorola and GE land mobile stuff, some of
> it must have escaped the landfill. Also, there were lots of tube type 6m
> gear by Clegg, Gonset, Lafayette etc. 
>
>        I think the technology drove the regulations here, when rf
> transistors capable of working at 6m became cheap and available the FCC
> set aside a little used part of the land mobile spectrum for
> walkie-talkies, cordless phones, and baby monitors. It's not the other
> way around - the spectrum did not come first. As John pointed out the
> FCC makes no provision for filament power in the regulation which allows
> 100mW total input to the final stage, so tubes were never a consideration. 
>
>         BTW, listened on 49MHz, it seems that there are still some baby
> monitors out there, no phones though. 
>
> 73 Warren K2ORS
>
>
>
>
>   6/21/2013 12:05 AM, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
> > :       A quick search shows that 49MHz was allocated in November 1984. 
> > : I'd be very surprised if there were ever any commercially made tube
> > : equipment for this use. 
> >
> > True, tube wouldn't make sense.  I thought 49 MHz went back further than
> > that.  I do have a 49 MHz monitor from '84, was going to dig up some old
> > catalogs and see if there was any mention of it. 
> >
> > Thanks. 
> >
> > Kurt
> >
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Paul Daulton K5WMS
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