> 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
>TL> plan, and finally American style 40 channels AM/SSB.
> Originally it was 23 channels. When the 40 channel sets came in, it
Actually, originally it was 19 in Canada channels, 1, 2, 3, & 23 were not
permitted for the first few years.
> 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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