Re: Re: Wannbe HAM
By: Tony Langdon to Joe Delahaye on Fri Sep 16 2016 18:41:00
JD>> then they gave us Side Band. A lot of us stayed on USB, and of
JD>> course some of us just happened to get into the lower end of 10
JD>> meter <G>. I
TL> Here, they gave us UHF, then 18 channels of AM/SSB with a unique band plan,
TL> and finally American style 40 channels AM/SSB.
Originally it was 23 channels. When the 40 channel sets came in, it became
illegal to sell the older sets. Not sure why.
JD>> ran a very successful net for a few years, but only on the legal
JD>> channels. Things died down, in the late 80s here. During all this
JD>> time, I was trying to get my Ham license, but kept failing to get
JD>> the required wpm in CW. Needed 12 at that time. Tried three times,
JD>> and then they came in with No-Code, and I got my Basic Licence.
JD>> Last change they made I got grandfathered in to HF
TL> A bunch of us in the sticks used to hang out on both bands. Having 2 bands
TL> at our disposal, we were able to setup ad-hoc links manually (speaker to
TL> microphone!), and cover quite a wide area. Took a little thinking who had
TL> to transmit on which band for the links to work (UHF simplex and 27 MHz
TL> SSB), but it was quite effective for linking wide areas without a
TL> traditional repeater.
Igineuity <G> We used to practice CW on Sideband <G>
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