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December 31st 04, 03:27 AM
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"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 |
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