Hi, Just down loaded and read the FCC Report and Order, why? Because I could not understand the ARRL report version which said the power we could use on those bands was 50 watts with reference to a 0
If I were the FCC and wanted to destroy ham radio, I'd give us more and more bands. By spreading us out, we are less likely to find others to talk with and more likely to become discouraged so that w
My gripe is.... what's wrong with CW on those small limited slots? If it's emphasis is "emergency comms" when 80/40 are not effective, why is CW left out? How many CW signals could we comfortably (or
I think there was a mistake in your math. It's... ssb - cw = cb ! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
I would not be surprised if the deletion of CW was because the Govt. and mil. monitors and FCC monitors cannot decode CW; all the old CW trained ops having retired. CW is not longer taught in Militar
CW? Why do they call it Continuous Wave when it is broken up into a bunch of long and short pulses? What is CONTINUOUS about that? It should be called Intermittent Wave! :-)
Well, Uncle Charley isn't giving us much more room to spread out on but it's kinda' like the story of the camel's nose under the tent. The camel stuck his schnozz under the tent, lifted his head, and
I was just on 60 meters with my Jupiter: MARS net. Join MARS and you can have a little more of the band. But it is no prize. I am glad I have good filtering in my radio. I can hear when most other st
Because it is not a damped wave which is what the old spark gap rigs put out. The dot or dash would start out at full amplitude and then start decaying or damping at a rate not to exceed a certain am
I still hear rumors that the special ops guys run cw at times. Milestone Technologies (Morsex) is selling a Nye Viking key that straps on the operators leg that was supposedly ordered by spec ops. 73
Stu: CW is still taught at Ft Huachuca, AZ for ALL services. The emphasis is on Intelligence gathering, not tactical comms. I have a good friend (a Navy Comm Tech 3rd Class) who is slated to attend t
The damping occurs after each excitation of the tank circuit, which is many times within each dit or dah. In a rotary spark gap transmitter this would be determined by the number of contacts on the r