[Milsurplus] 220 MHz ham band AM usage?
James M. Walker
chejmw at acsu.buffalo.edu
Fri May 21 10:59:39 EDT 2004
Well John,
That seems to be the general rule now-a-days. What with the shirt pocket
radio
stations on repeaters and such, they only care if you are going to possibly
cause
trouble for their repeater frequencies. Never once remembering repeaters are
in
fact allowed by gentlemen's agreement, and also that the rule states that
repeaters
can't interfere with ongoing communications. Everyone seems to have
forgotten
the listen before you transmit rule.
I am on 6 meter AM, 1 KW input, also 2 meter AM 1 KW input, and more
recently
220 AM also at, you guessed it 1 KW input. All with steerable antennas that
exhibit
some gain. If I get complaints from a repeater, I first gently refer them to
the rules and
regs section for amateur operation on these frequencies. If they want to be
a pain, then
I ignore them. If you point your antennas towards Buffalo, I am sure the
folks between
here and where you are will answer you.
Jim
WB2FCN
----- Original Message -----
From: <flood at Krohne.com>
To: "David Ross" <ross at hypertools.com>
Cc: <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] 220 MHz ham band AM usage?
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> Hi to all,
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> Ah ha! Now I don't feel so bad. I asked the same question of the local
> 220 spectrum management guy. Answer.... First silence, I expect he was
> looking around for the hidden camera. Then he asks "Who is this again?" I
> figure he is trying to recognize the voice, still sure that someone is
> playing a trick on him. Next he attempts, unsuccessfully, to hold back
> laughter and makes a comment something along the line of 'you must be one
> of those guys that's on 6 and 2 AM!' At this point I'm thinking "Great,
> now this is on my permanent record." He tells me that, (and I'm sure he
is
> still looking for that camera) "Well I'm sure that you won't be using it
> very often so it's OK to go where ever we want but just don't cause
> problems for the local repeaters. He wasn't rude at all and I glad that I
> was able to make him smile.
>
> John Flood KB1FQG
> TASC Department
> KROHNE, Inc
> 7 Dearborn Rd.
> Peabody, MA 01960
> Tel.: 978-535-6060 / 800-356-9464
> Fax: 978-535-8180
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> David Ross
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> 05/20/2004 10:09 PM
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> green radio folks -
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> Is there a preferred frequency in the 220 MHz ham band for AM
> operation? The ARRL band plan doesn't mention anything about AM on that
> band.
>
> Dave Ross N7EPI
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