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 stations are out of
business. And that is about half the time.
Keith Lodahl
KB9NUM NNN0ACS NNN0GCE ONE
President, Rock River Radio Club
ARRL Official Emergency Station
ARRL Public Information Officer
ARRL Volunteer Examiner
920-387-4675
kb9num@charter.net
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of AC5E@aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 7:15 PM
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] New and Coming 60 meter channels
>
>
> 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 he was all the way
> in the tent.
>
> The NTIA bureaucrats said the sky would fall if ham radio invaded their
> sacrosanct frequencies around 5 mHz. Just like bureaucrats
> everywhere - wet
> blankets all.
>
> We will eventually be given an opportunity to use some few channels on 60
> Meters. If we make good use of them; and prove to the doomsayers
> that the
> sky isn't falling and prove to the FCC we can make good emergency
> communications use of the frequencies; we can petition the FCC
> to give us
> some more channels with a good chance of success.
>
> So let's all keep on plugging away and eventually we should gain full
> priveleges on 60 also. I'm just glad I have two rigs that will get on 60!
>
> 73 Pete Allen AC5E
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