Sadly, it started dying a slow death with it's audio being reduced to a whisper about 2 months after this video was posted. Now it's intermittently working. :X
Wonder if the island fell outside of FCC bandplan jurisdiction, allowing the operators to fall back to the IARU Region 2 bandplan, which does allow phone operation at those frequencies. The callsign itself was issued as a special event station by a one of the five special callsign coordinators.
I think it's great having an op that speaks Japanese when working JA. In college we had a JA ham that liked talking back home in Japanese, he had BIG pileups! LOL.
What is making me scratch my head is how K5D is legally operating phone on 14.140. Desecheo is under FCC jurisdiction IIRC, so operating voice below 14.150 should be a no-no
Sadly, it started dying a slow death with it's audio being reduced to a whisper about 2 months after this video was posted. Now it's intermittently working. :X
Innismir 1 year ago
Nice classic Kenwood rig!
AudiophileTubes 1 year ago
Wonder if the island fell outside of FCC bandplan jurisdiction, allowing the operators to fall back to the IARU Region 2 bandplan, which does allow phone operation at those frequencies. The callsign itself was issued as a special event station by a one of the five special callsign coordinators.
davepgoncalves 2 years ago
I think it's great having an op that speaks Japanese when working JA. In college we had a JA ham that liked talking back home in Japanese, he had BIG pileups! LOL.
k9rzz 3 years ago
What is making me scratch my head is how K5D is legally operating phone on 14.140. Desecheo is under FCC jurisdiction IIRC, so operating voice below 14.150 should be a no-no
Innismir 3 years ago