Wow!  I've never heard much of anything down there.  My Icom IC706 will 
cover that range--it is presently the only thing that I have that will go 
there.

73, de Lou K2LKK



At 07:50 PM 3/13/2008 -0500, you wrote:
>Louis Kim Kline writes:
> >Wouldn't it be cool if we could get them to open up the 4 meter band for
> >ham radio?  It'll probably never happen, but it would be nice to have a
> >shot at working the Europeans when the MUF gets really really high...
>
>         To do that, they would need to move all the folks up or
>down who are presently in that band.
>
>         There are a lot of low-power and point-to-point services
>in the 72-76 MHZ band in the United States. I have actually
>listened to those frequencies during the occasional killer
>Sporadic E opening and there are gobs of signals.
>
>         Most are point-to-point links in which a paging
>transmitter sends paging signals to multiple repeaters whose
>input is that frequency and whose output is something like 150
>MHZ. Oklahoma City used to have such a system and I once even
>heard skip from the Southeast United States keying up the
>various local paging repeaters around here. There was voice
>paging going on at that time and one could hear the distant
>signals full-quieting in the paging repeaters.
>
>         Somebody, once, even had a radio reading service for the
>blind on one of the 4-meter channels but it wasn't in long
>enough for me to tell who it was.
>
>         When I used to live closer to the OSU football stadium,
>the Cowboy Football Network had a cueuing transmitter on
>72.something MHZ. You could hear the game audio interrupted by
>commands to staff who were broadcasting the game. It's kind of
>weird to listen to.
>
>         There are also lots of radio-controlled model channels
>in that band so lots of people would need to move. Also, 75.0
>MHZ is an aircraft beacon frequency.
>
>Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
>Systems Engineer
>OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group
>
>
>
>
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