315MHz like car systems?   497MHz? That does seem odd....what power level
does it put out?

Jaime Solorza

On Sat, Jun 30, 2018, 11:44 AM <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a horizontal directional drill.  The drill bit transmitter (sonde)
> talk to a receiver.  They are pretty low frequencies, like 8 KHz or
> something like that.  Then the locator sends data to a remote indicator on
> the machine.  One of the antennas (the one on the remote indicator) was
> messed up and one of my guys just put a random length of wire on it.  Range
> is not good.  I told him I would figure this out and make a better
> antenna.
>
> That is the easy part, I just swept the other good antenna and noted it
> resonates at 479 MHz.  Will make a sleeved dipole for it.
>
> But now I am wonder if I ought to be licensing this thing?
>
> I expected it to be in the 300 Mhz unlicensed band (316 or whatever it
> is).  Never thought it might be illegal until this morning.
> FCC band plan shows the following for that frequency:
>
> Public Mobile (22)
> Broadcast Radio (TV)(73)
> LPTV, TV Translator/Booster (74G)
> Low Power Auxiliary (74H)
> Private Land Mobile (90)
>
> That is all licensed stuff.
>
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