Hello ... Seems I still have some of my 440 MHz band coordination notes from the mid sixties .......
As you might remember I was doing the 440 MHz band frequency coordination in Southern California - way long before SCRRBA came along: Some (all?) of the following will make you groan seriously ... In ... Out ... Call 440.05 448.05 W6BGM 440.55 448.55 K6VPE 440.65 448.65 K6DGX 440.85 447.94 K6QEB 440.95 448.75 WA6ESC 441.10 448.94 WA6ESC 441.25 449.25 WB6DOW 441.45 449.50 WA6HTP 441.93 449.73 K6AHF 442.00 449.60 K6RGW 441.85? 449.83 W6YDZ 442.63 449.63 WB6GUA Several of the above call sign holders have passed on, a few more are still around - somewhere - also using different calls. Frequency coordination in those days was more a matter of someone knowing who was where ... so you didn't accidentally order crystals for your RCA CMU15 or GE MC306 on a frequency already in use. It wasn't always a problem as sometimes the tweaking capacitors could move that crystal to the next channel. Hope the above gives you a smile ... Neil McKie - WA6KLA Ken Arck wrote: > > At 04:36 PM 9/20/2004 -0000, you wrote: > > > >Unfair, you've changed callsign (I think). My memory isn't that > >great, but I remember a Ken that lived on a house boat in San Pedro, > >was that you? What was your call in the "good old" days? What was > >the remote call? That'll probably jog the memory record from "off > >line storage" ! > > <---Yep, that was me. My old call was WA6EMV (oh no, not him!!). > Back in those days, I was the typical know-it-all kid, as opposed to > now being a snotty know-it-all middle aged guy! > > My old system was originally WR6AKB and then (of course), it became > WA6EMV. We were one of the very first to be coordinated on a VHF > "splinter" channel in SoCal - 146.745/.145, which is where we ended > up after first being coordinated on 147.69/.39, which caused the > conflict with the GR0NK guys. Man, I remember them programming up a > CW IDer that sent the following as part of our "war": > > - . . . - - . - . - . - . - - . . . - . . > > (the above is exactly what their ID sent. If you look at it in a > mirror, it would say "F*** EMV". I always thought that was very > clever on their part! :-) > > I finally had enough of 2 meter repeaters and moved to UHF (443.325 > I *think*) and have stayed on UHF ever since. > > Anyway, there's the sordid story! > > Ken > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > President and CTO - Arcom Communications > Makers of state-of-the-art repeater controllers and accessories. > http://www.ah6le.net/arcom/index.html > We now offer complete Kenwood TKR repeater packages! > AH6LE/R - IRLP Node 3000 > http://www.irlp.net > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
