[600MRG] Too Funny!

[John Molnar]

That is classic!  Tnx for sharing!

John XKA

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Warren K2ORS <k2ors at verizon.net> wrote:

> I was hiking through the conservation land this afternoon and listening to
> 60m channel 2 (53346.5) and heard a guy talking about 500kc (I will not
> identify to protect the guilty.)
> He was telling his buddies that 600m was now an authorized ham band and
> that the had ordered a Juba (sic) kit from Finland. Furthermore, he was
> listening on 475kHz last night and heard this guy WD2XSH on CW - he lookes
> WD2XSH up on QRZ.COM and came to the conclusion that 472-479 was now
> authorized for U.S. hams. He also said that he ordered a 2" dia fiberglass
> tube from McMaster Carr for a coil form for his loading coil as the 60W out
> of the Juba (sic) would cause PVC to catch fire !
>
>    I ran home, and as my 60m dipole is down due to tree work, I jumped in
> the car and called him with my mobile setup.  He was adamant that he knew
> what he was talking about, after all there was a web page talking about a
> 20W ERP assignment. I tried explaining the situation - WD2XSH is an
> Experimental License with 41 different stations (his comment was that's
> confusing).  He also told me that he could always work 472-479 with 5W ERP
> under Part 15! Then he proceeded to explain to me how difficult it is to
> radiate 5W ERP on 472!
>
>    I followed up with an email, but so far no response.
>
>    I didn't realize WD2XSH is on qrz.com, but if so someone needs to put
> in 24pt Bold Face type a warning that this is NOT an authorized ham band in
> the U.S. !
>
> 73 Warren K2ORS
>           WD2XSH/23
>           WH2XIL
>
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