[SIERA] Bandwarming Party Slated for December 15

[Dick Flanagan K7VC]

December 15th band-warming party

Vintage radio hobbyists in the United States will celebrate the federal
government's expansion of the 75 meter phone band with a 'bandwarming'
party from 3600-3800Kc starting at 0500 GMT Dec. 15, 2006.

The festivities are slated to begin Thursday evening December 14th, when
vintage radio enthusiasts in Canada will gather around several frequencies
between 3700-3800, where they already enjoy phone privileges.

The Federal Communications Commission, as part of a decision to enlarge
and more closely match the size of the 75 meter phone band with levels of
activity, has specified enactment at midnight, Eastern time.

A number of U.S. stations have been granted the use of Special Event 1x1
Call Signs to help commemorate the regulatory upgrade.

By coincidence, December 2006 marks 100 years since radio pioneer
experimenter Reginald Fesseden's celebrated Amplitude Modulation
broadcasts, considered by many to be the first voice and music signals to
be heard by the public audience for wireless.

The 'bandwarming' of 2006 will again feature the AM mode, as vintage radio
enthusiasts warm up their vacuum tube gear on a December night a century
later.


For more information:
http://amfone.net

Thanks QRZ.COM for the information.   Besides the AM group, I'm sure there
will also be plenty of SSB on as well.   A great idea to celebrate the new
band expansion and Reginald Fessenden's AM invention.

Gary K7VY