[Milsurplus] BC-611 test on 40 meters

[Bruce MacMillan]

It would be nice to have a worldwide frequency for low power and 3885 is 
widely used in North America but it is outside the region 1 bandplan. 
Maybe some year.
Bruce
M0SOE

On 18/01/2020 05:14, Hubert Miller wrote:
>
> Looking at the December 2019 issue of the 'Surplus Radio Bulletin' ( I 
> assume this means military surplus radios and not surplus radio 
> bulletins ) of the 'Surplus Radio Society',
>
> Netherlands, and going by some Dutch words approximately similar to 
> Deutsch, i read about a "test carried out over some distance" using a 
> BC-611 on� 40 meters. Apparently
>
> the BC-611 was set up with different crystals for receive and transmit 
> freqs, 7073 kHz transmit and 7070 receive, using BC-659 crystals. No 
> further details. I would think with
>
> the antenna quite a bit more efficient here than on 3885, range would 
> be substantially better ?� But here, "the" frequency for low power AM 
> operations is 3885. I prefer to
>
> leave mine working in the original frequency range.
>
> -Hue
>
>

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