ham frequencies

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Following the horrendous Alaskan earthquake in 1964 I stayed on the air for 48 hours handling emergency radio traffic out of Alaska.

I was a junior in high school at the time. My principal knew I was a ham, and he gave me two days off school to assist with the emergency effort.

In those days there were no cell phones, no internet, and very little way to communicate when all the power lines were down.

Most of the traffic I handled was names of survivors and injured/killed, which we passed on to the various news agenccies. We also handled requests for equipment, supplies, and personnel.

It was an unforgettable experience. I learned more in those two days than I would have learned in two months at school.

2008-04-29 01:01:41 by Eat At Joes

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The Yukon Amateur Radio Association site has the repeater frequencies for the Yukon Territory on their website. The British Columbia Amateur Radio Co-ordination Council has the information for BC on their site.

2008-08-17 14:50:47 by Abel

Price: $79.99

Easily locate specific calls with 6 preprogrammed service searches, including public safety, railroad, and marine
Compact design fits comfortably in hand; easy-to-read backlit display, lockable keypad for saving settings
Runs on 2 AA alkaline or rechargeable batteries (these can be be recharged while in the scanner)
Comprehensive memory with 100 channels over 10 banks; Close Call RF technology identifies nearby signals
Handheld scanner for monitoring police and fire signals, weather transmissions, ham radio bands, and more

ps i dont transmit, and have a license for ham radio
yaesu vx-7r

The Yaesu vx-7r handheld has general converge RX and TX on ham bands 50 , 220 , 144 and 440MHz.

As the RX coverage is an extra feature , but not a main purpose of the rig RX performance on these other bands will be compromised.

Add to that the low sunspot numbers we are experiencing now (which kills DX contacts on the higher bands) and the drop in active CBers means that there is little to hear on the 27Mhz band in most places.

2008-04-18 19:28:14 by pghpanthers2

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You cannot transmit on any frequencies without a license. You can only listen.

2008-10-04 09:49:57 by Storm Chaser Michael

Do ham's operationg on HF really use the calling frequencies shown in the bandplans or they call CQ in random frequencies?

They call CQ on any frequency they want which is within their licensed privileges.

2009-04-26 11:56:42 by john b