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Old May 29th 10, 05:40 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
bpnjensen bpnjensen is offline
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Default 7160 last night - Central African Republic???

On May 29, 7:27*am, dave wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
On May 28, 3:41 pm, *wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
On May 28, 7:13 am, *wrote:
41 Meter HFBC is being moved out of this band.- Hide quoted text -


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OK - Actually, I thought it has already been *officially* moved - but
my guess is that there will be stations in places like Africa where
this regulation is loosely followed at best.


Bruce Jensen


Do you know how much a new quartz crystal, custom grown, for a decades
old transmitter, costs?


Uhhh - no, not exactly...why do you ask, pray tell?


Before PLL synthesisers you had to use a TCXO the size of a microwave
oven to provide sufficient frequency stability.

http://www.transmitter.be/gat-hf50c.html


Fair enough. This little station, being perhaps a 1 kW station, might
be using just a ham rig and amp with an oversized power supply for
broadcast. In any case, the station rep said there were "propagation"
problems, whatever that means, so they were not using that frequency.

Bruce Jensen