[600MRG] Too Funny!

[Warren K2ORS]

Ken,
     Looks good to me, I will forward to the guy in question.

73 Warren


On 9/26/2014 9:31 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> 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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