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Message posted by Big_Mike23/11/2013 at 11:39pm
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Well David, you certainly did stir up the bee pot. I cant comment on the licensing laws in the uk but most of us amateur radio people started in German with the old group 8 or Taxi wireless, old valved Bosch things with 6 channels, 6 watt RF AM on the 11 meter band. It was there that I got interested in the other bands, but I can remember getting an ex military RF meter with 50 ohms load, and tuning the final drives to over the limit. We used to change the RF amp transistor to a Japanese 30 Watt type and tune to max. I have seen the legs glow on pressing the PTT button on the mike, on one of the rigs that we where messing around with. But David, you know as a radio tech what happens to the bandwidth on AM, it goes very wide and to be heard at 50 MHz and the 3rd harmonic even louder on the 80 MHz . As you can see I am against the freeing of AM and SSB on 27 MHz band, the temptation to fiddle with the circuits to gain more power is to great.
I made the German amateur radio exam on the 4th march 1979 and the big licence in 1981. It was a 4 part exam with CW, the technical part being the worst. For practical part I built a quartz oven to stabilise quartz oscillators. I then got the call sign DD5DJ.
Sorry about all the tech bits for those who are not technically minded, but I had to explain just why I am against it.
Mike (DD5DJ)
Post last edited on 23/11/2013 23:50:28
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..just like the good old CB wind ups back in the day...My favourite one was the t**t who called out "19 for a wind up". So I would say "Can't hear you breaker, no modulation"...
