Re: Topband: Am I the only one in step?

2016-03-06 Thread Don Beattie
That could be one reading, Don. The other is that WRC Agenda time is intensely sought after, for many changes to spectrum allocations. IARU was confronted with the prospect of failing on both its bids for WRC19 Agenda items and in effect prioritised the other (global allocation at 50 MHz)

Re: Topband: Am I the only one in step?

2016-03-04 Thread Don Beattie
Don, The use of that spectrum by others has reduced very significantly. I cannot say that there are no other users, but it's not like it used to be when the current spectrum allocations were originally agreed. That is the reason that IARU raised the matter as a potential agenda item for WRC 19.

Re: Topband: Am I the only one in step?

2016-03-01 Thread Don Beattie
Mike - I agree the objective, but the reality is a little harder! The 160 allocations across Europe, for example, vary widely. 1800-1810 is not generally part of the allocated spectrum. Various countries have various parts of the band with varying power privileges (you'll have seen

Re: Topband: Bad tower shunt capacitor

2014-01-30 Thread Don Beattie
Jamie, When I had a problem like that on a matching system, I had someone else key the transmitter and watched the feedpoint at night. It took ten seconds to see the problem ! Fireworks had nothing on what happened. 73 Don, G3BJ / G5W -Original Message- From: Topband