Posted on 12/31/2014 5:22:29 PM PST by Usagi_yo
The weather let up nicely for a day, and there was a little time to revisit information about QRP (for other readers here, communications using very little power).
Now, that’s interesting, maybe especially with PSK31! That could open up a world, so to speak, from a station that’s too far from affordable grid electricity. We’ll see what can be built for that.
That’s pretty neat, but it looks like their kits are all “retired.”
“Temporary out of stock
2N2/XX Transceiver
Limited Run Kit
Please note that this is a limited run kit and when they are gone, they are gone. A total of 500 kits were produced - 200 on 20-meters, 100 on 30-meters, and 200 on 40-meters.”
But thanks anyway! Maybe they’ll let me etch one of their board designs, so I won’t need to solve noise problems from scratch (because schematics alone don’t tell us where to arrange parts on boards). Existing pictorials from tested designs make it a whole lot easier to etch a good board.
Some men in other countries have made some pretty good kits, too, but transceiver specs per countries’ regulations would need to be checked first (an no FCC approvals on those for use by employers and officials here).
the specific purpose of keeping oneself from getting busted (individual behavioral enhancement).
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THAT is the part I don’t understand! Why?
More seriously, because without enforcement, too many people would interfere with and in many cases even prevent the communications of others or use radio to otherwise violate the rights of others. Contemporary behavioral trends are already obvious to us all. And it’s common knowledge that allowing commercial interests to further influence amateur radio would be disastrous.
The primary reason for this is that the worldwide frequencies amateur radio operators use, sometimes called shortwave or high frequency (HF), are subject to international agreements for frequency allocations and operating standards. If you wish to find out more, set your search engine to "International Telecommunications Union". These frequencies are the ones amateurs use to talk all over the world, as compared to the ones used to talk locally using the previously referenced handheld radios.
Jean Shepherd was an amateur radio operator, too, not just an author/radio host.
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