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This is the RAIN Hamcast Podcast #92, posted 07-02-23.
[The running time for this RAIN Hamcast Podcast is 13M06S with timer resets approximately every 3 minutes.]
This is a RAIN Replay, voiced by Blair Alper, KA9SEQ. In the early to mid 1990s Mark Thompson, WB9QZB penned a column entitled Bites from QZB. These were often controversial but always thought provoking commentaries. While the focus of this first Bites from QZB are issues concerning the 70CM (440 mHz) band in the Chicago area, the problems discussed may very well paralel those occurring in your area. Former RAIN reader, Scott Childers, W9CHI (formerly WD9FXP introduced Mark's first column.
Back in the 1980s, the frequencies allocated to the 220 U.S. Amateur Radio Service were 220 to 225 mHz. In the late 1980s United Parcel Service (UPS) persuaded and cajoled the FCC to reallocate 220 to 222 mHz to commercial interests. UPS made a lot of noise about how much it needed those two mhz of spectrum to develop an Amplitude Compandered Side Band (ACSB) communications network. After all the wailing and gnashing of teeth had subsided and the dust had settled, UPS found the technology unworkable on those frequencies and abandoned the project! Art Reis, K9XI published his 220 Report during the early and mid 1990s until he ceased publishing it altogether later that decade. Here’s Arts first 220 Report he wrote and voiced for RAIN in November, 1990.
RAIN Founder Hap Holly/KC9RP edits and produces this biweekly ham radio hamcast without monetization. Your support via PayPal and feedback on therainreport.com are appreciated. RAIN programming is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. The URL for that license (which you may want to link to from your site) is you are encouraged to download, share, post and transmit the RAIN Hamcast in its entirety via Amateur Radio. Thanks to Tom Shimizu/N9JDI for posting a not-for-broadcast version of these podcasts via the RAIN Report Channel on YouTube. Very 73 from RAIN. KEEP ON HAMMING!
The RAIN Hamcast Podcast #93 will post 07-15-23.
©1985-2023, RAIN, the Radio Amateur Information Network. All rights reserved.
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By Hap HollyThis is the RAIN Hamcast Podcast #92, posted 07-02-23.
[The running time for this RAIN Hamcast Podcast is 13M06S with timer resets approximately every 3 minutes.]
This is a RAIN Replay, voiced by Blair Alper, KA9SEQ. In the early to mid 1990s Mark Thompson, WB9QZB penned a column entitled Bites from QZB. These were often controversial but always thought provoking commentaries. While the focus of this first Bites from QZB are issues concerning the 70CM (440 mHz) band in the Chicago area, the problems discussed may very well paralel those occurring in your area. Former RAIN reader, Scott Childers, W9CHI (formerly WD9FXP introduced Mark's first column.
Back in the 1980s, the frequencies allocated to the 220 U.S. Amateur Radio Service were 220 to 225 mHz. In the late 1980s United Parcel Service (UPS) persuaded and cajoled the FCC to reallocate 220 to 222 mHz to commercial interests. UPS made a lot of noise about how much it needed those two mhz of spectrum to develop an Amplitude Compandered Side Band (ACSB) communications network. After all the wailing and gnashing of teeth had subsided and the dust had settled, UPS found the technology unworkable on those frequencies and abandoned the project! Art Reis, K9XI published his 220 Report during the early and mid 1990s until he ceased publishing it altogether later that decade. Here’s Arts first 220 Report he wrote and voiced for RAIN in November, 1990.
RAIN Founder Hap Holly/KC9RP edits and produces this biweekly ham radio hamcast without monetization. Your support via PayPal and feedback on therainreport.com are appreciated. RAIN programming is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. The URL for that license (which you may want to link to from your site) is you are encouraged to download, share, post and transmit the RAIN Hamcast in its entirety via Amateur Radio. Thanks to Tom Shimizu/N9JDI for posting a not-for-broadcast version of these podcasts via the RAIN Report Channel on YouTube. Very 73 from RAIN. KEEP ON HAMMING!
The RAIN Hamcast Podcast #93 will post 07-15-23.
©1985-2023, RAIN, the Radio Amateur Information Network. All rights reserved.