[Yaesu] Re: 60 meters on new rigs

[CBoone@Earthlink.Net]

Yeah, most hams are not MARS either :) (I used to be active in CAP and
Mars on VHF...never operated the HF freqs) It WILL be interesting....
pity we didnt get a "band segment" instead....(Was also looking to
some Lowfer allocations...but nnnnnnnOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! ;)

Chris
WB5ITT

"Bruce D. McLaughlin" wrote:
> 
> Actually AF Mars (and the other MARS services) have always operated on
> discrete frequencies with tightly controlled frequency tolerances.  The
> older tube type rigs often hard a hard time finding and staying on
> frequency but the modern, solid state radios with decent TXCOs seem to
> do very well.  I will say that as hams we are used to tuning off
> frequency to avoid QRM.  That is not possible on the MARS frequencies
> and will not be possible on 60 meters.  It may be quite frustrating.
> 
> Bruce - W8FU
>