Gang,
Every night I go to qrz.com and take a trivia quiz on ham
radio.? Since a lot of you are in the age bracket that can
answer the questions easily, I thought you might be interested
in this question and the fact that the quiz exists at all.
In what year did the F.C.C. finally give approval for hams to legally
receive outside their frequency range?
Does this mean that all the years up until 1993 that I was illegal?
I used to copy the daily news from UP, UPI and API off the HF bands
in CW.? The news services sent the news daily for copy by 'sparkie'
on all the ships at sea for he/she to copy on a 'mil' and post on
the bulletin board(s) daily for the crew and passengers to read.
Being in a very small west TX town that only had a newspaper once
a week and before TV, I got the news first.? I used to post some
stuff at school for show-and-tell.? I was probably violating several
copyright laws at the time.
Tell the new generation that there was a time when ships didn't have
a huge printing press operation for printing newsletters every morning
and there was no satellite TV to watch in your cabin.
Before 1993 did any of the manufacturers, such as TenTec, have a
general coverage receiver in the rig?
I'm wondering where Fred@... dug the question up.
What is the cheapest high performance HF receiver in 2019?? A
SDR dongle?? Any general coverage receiver designs for home brew?
Inquiring minds gotta know.
FYI
chuck, k7qo
