At 02:34 PM 10/10/2002 -0400, William Moneysmith wrote:
>Yes, I fully agree with Neil and his comments. VHF, UHF and MW need to be
>promoted and encouraged to the fullest. We need to use those frequencies or
>guess what will happen? The commercial folks are licking their chops for more
>frequencies in those regions. Use it or lose it!
>
>I was in Costco today and I saw this neat little remote wireless weather
>station. I picked up the package and read a little closer and guess where the
>"wireless" operates? It operates on the frequency of 433 MHz. Does this
>frequency sound familiar? You bet it is in the middle of the Ham
>Band. Granted
>it is low power, but I'll bet if you had it at your house, you would not
>be able
>to use 433 MHz. There are other items springing up like this on the market.
>Again use it or lose it!
This is nothing new. They've been around for a few years. I have a remote temp
sensor that runs on that frequency that I got from RS a couple of years
ago. So far,
haven't had any QRM problems on 432. OTOH, you're right, would perfer that it
were somewhare else in the spectrum.
John - K9IJ
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