My Amateur Radio Experience

I studied for, took and sucessfully passed my Technician-No Code examination in 1994 if i'm not mistaken. Since that time I only spent a total of about two years on the amateur radio frequencies in the UHF/VHF range, particularly on 2 meters (144MHZ-148MHZ). I am also the owner of two handheld amateur radio transcievers. The first being The Radio Shack HTX-202 2 Meter transciever which I bought from a ham radio enthusiast back in 2002 and a Yaesu VX-7R Tri-Band Amateur Radio Transceiver which I bought from another ham radio enthusiast in 2006. I only talk on the 2 meter (144MHZ-148MHZ), 70 cm (420MHZ-450MHZ), 1.25 cm (222MHZ-225MHZ). These frequencies are in the VHF/UHF range. I normally hang out on 145.11MHZ, 146.94MHZ, 146.64MHZ, 147.135MHZ repeaters. On certain 1.25 cm frequencies I connect to the internet via IRLP equipped repeaters to access distant repeaters all over the world. There is also "ECHOLINK" via my computer to connect to distant repeaters via the Internet. It makes talking over a handheld transceiver to a distant station (i.e., Honolulu, Hawaii, etc.) extremely possible. I have made short, long and extremely long distant contacts and have made new friends as well as learned some more technical aspects of amateur radio. More later. Chow!!

Radio Amatuers Sue The FCC

The American Radio Relay League, a nationwide association of some 152,000 US Amateur Radio operators, in May filed suit in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit against the Federal Communications Commission. The suit is over the FCC's role in approving Broadband over Power Lines (BPL), an Internet technology that has the side effect of jamming short wave radio reception near the power lines it uses. The FCC has filed a reply brief.