[600MRG] Too Funny!

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

Holy Crap!

I had forgotten that I had put that up there on QRZ.com

Please go read what I have just edited and let me know if you think it 
suffices.

Gee....!!!! :-(

Ken W7EKB


On 26 Sep 2014 at 19:51, Warren K2ORS 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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Kenneth G. Gordon W7EKB

"Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway."--- John   Wayne