"Len Over 21" wrote in message
...
In article , Barry OGrady
writes:

On 29 Dec 2004 05:00:06 GMT, (Len Over 21) wrote:

In article ws.com,
"Phil
Kane" writes:

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:04:32 -0500, Mike Coslo wrote:

The FCC is now allowing unlicensed operation in several bands: 6 GHz,
17
GHz and 24 GHz bands, are you concerned about the impact it will have
on
Hams?

How many people here even use the GHz bands?

Are there enough Hams to even justify further use?

They used to say the same thing about the bands above 2 meters.

We lost 220-222 MHz. That isn't important unless all the 2m and 3/4m
frequency pairs are used up.

The two-twenty loss (part of the old band there) was "lost" to hams
some time ago. The Condor Net has been living and doing fine in
what is left above it. BIG network, multiple states involved, all
tone
signalling to link along the net, designed that way before micro-
processors became commonplace.

Don't worry, anyone. Morsemanship is still necessary to get on HF
as an amateur.

No its not. My amateur license lets me use all amateur bands with no
knowledge of morse.

So...is there some secret U.S. amateur regulation restructuring
that has already removed the morse code test?!? [other than a
specific, individual medical waiver of it, possible years ago]

My commercial license let me transmit RF on a far wider range
of the EM spectrum than just the amateur bands, certainly those
few spectrum slices allocated on a primary basis to just amateurs.

Didn't even need any "license" to transmit on HF, on VHF, on UHF
and on microwaves 51+ years ago when in military service.

An amateur radio operator license is NOT a noble title indicating
a licensee is "superior" to all other human beings...except in the
personal imaginings of a few who are lost in a fantasyland.





Hello, Len

That commercial license wasn't a particularly big deal, except that you were
expected to memorize the "band plan", as it were, for VHF television. I had
to laugh, no problem with the video or audio carrier nor the allotted 6 MHz
per channel space. First question, I think, was "what is the frequency of
the video carrier of channel 6 television in the United States?". Well, I
guessed they couldn't all be that bad, so I flipped a couple of pages, put
my finger down, and examined the question by my finger. "What is the color
burst frequency?". Ah, simple. 3.58 MHz .... oops, all of the 4 answers
started with 3.579 .....

So, I had to take it a second time and this time I simply memorized the
splits and took a good hard look at how tightly various frequencies were
specified. Then it was easy.

The second class ticket was a joke. 45 ohms resistance with 45 ohms
inductive reactance. What is the phase angle?
a) voltage leads current by 90 degrees
b) current leads voltage by 90 degrees
c) voltage leads current by 45 degrees
d) current leads voltage by 45 degrees

Not exactly IEEE stuff.

The commercial telegraph license and radar endorsement were also not very
difficult. Such brain-strainers as "why do you avoid long horizontal
sections of waveguide".

A commercial license is not a noble title indicating a licensee is
"superior" to all other human beings (amateurs included) LOL


Best regards from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA