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 .  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 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   We used to practice CW on Sideband 
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