Subj : Wannbe HAM
To   : Joe Delahaye
From : Bob Seaborn
Date : Fri Sep 16 2016 10:44 am

 >   Re: Re: Wannbe HAM
 >   By: Tony Langdon to Joe Delahaye on Fri Sep 16 2016 18:41:00
 >
 >JD>> then they gave us Side Band.  A lot of us stayed on USB, and of
 >JD>> course some of us just happened to get into the lower end of 10
 >JD>> meter <G>.  I
 >
 >TL> Here, they gave us UHF, then 18 channels of AM/SSB with a unique band
 >TL> plan, and finally American style 40 channels AM/SSB.
 >
 > Originally it was 23 channels.  When the 40 channel sets came in, it

Actually, originally it was 19 in Canada channels, 1, 2, 3,  & 23 were not 
permitted for the first few years.



 > became
 > illegal to sell the older sets.  Not sure why.
 >
 >
 >JD>> ran a very successful net for a few years, but only on the legal
 >JD>> channels.  Things died down, in the late 80s here.  During all this
 >JD>> time, I was trying to get my Ham license, but kept failing to get
 >JD>> the required wpm in CW.  Needed 12 at that time.  Tried three times,
 >JD>> and then they came in with No-Code, and I got my Basic Licence.
 >JD>> Last change they made I got grandfathered in to HF
 >
 >TL> A bunch of us in the sticks used to hang out on both bands. Having 2
 > bands
 >TL> at our disposal, we were able to setup ad-hoc links manually (speaker
 > to
 >TL> microphone!), and cover quite a wide area. Took a little thinking who
 > had
 >TL> to transmit on which band for the links to work (UHF simplex and 27 MHz
 >TL> SSB), but it was quite effective for linking wide areas without a
 >TL> traditional repeater.
 >
 > Igineuity <G>  We used to practice CW on Sideband <G>
 > --- SBBSecho 3.00-Win32
 >  * Origin: The Lions Den BBS, Trenton, On, CDN (1:249/303)


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