Since everyone else is talking about K5D, I might as well also. I’ve only been monitoring K5D, since they have always been working split and my humble equipment can’t do such things. Although, this weekend I saw them doing something strange, they were transmitting voice on 14.140 and listening on 14.130 in order to work Japanese stations. I documented the K5D portion of this:
What is making me scratch my head is how K5D is legally operating phone on 14.140. As far as I can tell Desecheo is under FCC jurisdiction, so operating voice below 14.150 should be a no-no. Am I missing something?
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I asked an elmer around here who explained that they are not in Region 2 down there so that might explain the shift in rules. I can’t find a bandplan that is more specific to puerto rico though.
73 de kb9jhu
Posted by cshields on February 23rd, 2009.
They’re South of 20 degrees which puts them in region 2. I had same question until I asked ARRL HQ.
Posted by Jerry on February 28th, 2009.
Hey Ben,
You might be able to work some limited split on your rig. I don’t recognize the model number, but it probably has a RIT function, or one can be added pretty easily. If that is the case, you can usually get about 10kc from the RIT, and it can be modified to get a bit more if needed. That means you can park the main vfo dial on the dx stations receive frequency then use the rit to tune up or down to the frequency the dx station is transmitting on. I actually sometimes prefer this method to using vfo a&b sometimes, particularly when I’m searching for dx. keep one vfo and RIT on the dx split I’m trying to work, while I can use the other to tune around looking for other dx.
By the way, you have special a QSL card headed your way.
73,
Paul
Posted by Paul (kg7hf) on March 20th, 2009.
Hi Paul:
Pumped for the QSL
Tried RIT, but they were usually operating 10+ KHz up/down, RIT could only tune about 3 KHz away. Oh well.
Posted by Innismir on March 21st, 2009.