17 Jan
2009
17 Jan
'09
9:10 p.m.
On 17 Jan 2009 at 19:42, Tony Duell wrote:
Yes, I did, sorry for the confusion.
The old UK Class B license was a VHF/UHF license. At one time (before I
was licensed it was the UHF bands only (70cm and higher frequencies).
When I got my licence, it was 2m and higher frequencies, 4m came in
shortly afterwards. When the UK got a 6m band (even later), I think class
B's had access to that from the start.
I should get active, I guess. What's put me off is that 99% of the hams I
meet seem only interested by buying the latest black-ox transciever. I'm
interested in homebrrwing, restoring boatanchors, tinkering, that sort of
thing. The digital modes looked attractive at first until I realised that
for most of them you use a PC running pre-written (and often not
open-soruce!) software. No thanks. The sort of experimetnation that I am
interested in is not done with black boxes.
When I get a tuit composed of a set of points equidistant from a fixed
point, I'll get the AR88 on the bench. I hauled it out of a skip years
ago (literally), I've now found enough good valves to run it, so it's just
(!) a matter of replaicng defective capacitors and getting it running
again. Then I have to think of making a transmitter.... As I said, I
have shortage of tuits.
-tony
Me for another :-). Call G1XPF. That was a Class
B license years ago --
for the non-UK people here, 'Class B' was a no-code license which let you
transmit on 6m and above, all modes. But in the great reshuffle of
licenses about 6 years ago, it bacame a 'Full' license (basically the
code requirement was removed)...
That's very strange. The old US Technician license (5 wpm code)
limited operation to 2 Meters and *down* (i.e. VHF/UHF). It seems
odd to restrict no-code to HF--unless by "above" you mean up in
frequency, not wavelength.