[600MRG] Too Funny!

[Dexter McIntyre W4DEX]

Bad choice for an email subject Warren :)  "Too Funny!"  is a real spam 
filter trap.

Dex

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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