Ham radio operators have several different frequency bands set aside for their use. These bands range from just above the AM broadcast band (the AM band ends at 1700 kHz; the 160-meter ham band begins at 1800 kHz) through the shortwave band and into the VHF, UHF, and microwave frequencies...
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When the SWL and Amateur Radio hobbies meet by Dan Greenall Many of us who are also amateur radio operators, got their start in the hobby through simply listening to shortwave radio, or perhaps, to stations in the AM or FM broadcast bands. I suppose it is then inevitable that these two ...
No noise, no static, no foreign broadcast QRM, and (because this was before the ubiquity of computers and cell phones) no computer interference. So you would tune from S9 station to S9 station with almost nothing in between! Then at nighttime (after the band had closed – although sometimes...
162.40 MHz to 162.55 MHz: Series of channels used for NOAA weather broadcasts and bulletins. Also 163.275 MHz. These well-known weather broadcast stations cover a large portion of the US and are very useful to have programmed in your radio. Do not transmit on these frequencies. ...
Auxiliary broadcast stations, such as remote pickup stations. Domestic public fixed and mobile radio systems, such as mobile telephone systems, cellular systems, rural radio systems, point-to-point microwave systems, multipoint distribution systems, etc. ...
Auxiliary broadcast stations, such as remote pickup stations. Domestic public fixed and mobile radio systems, such as mobile telephone systems, cellular systems, rural radio systems, point-to-point microwave systems, multipoint distribution systems, etc. ...
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I was meandering around the web this morning and stumbled on to a page where famous key collector and curator Tom Perera W1TP had re-createdthe morse key setup used by Walter Winchellto introduce and punctuate his radio and later TV broadcasts. They were a pair of Vibroplex bugs. ...