[600MRG] Too Funny!

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Hammy Hambone ;~(

Jay W1VD  WD2XNS  WE2XGR/2

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Warren K2ORS" <k2ors at verizon.net>
To: "600MRG" <600mrg at w7ekb.com>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 7:51 PM
Subject: [600MRG] Too Funny!


>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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