Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27148 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2003 11:59:42 -0000 Received: from netmail01.services.quay.plus.net (212.159.14.219) by mailstore with SMTP; 11 Nov 2003 11:59:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 25444 invoked by uid 10001); 11 Nov 2003 11:59:42 -0000 X-Filtered-by: Plusnet (hmail v1.01) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Spam-detection-level: 11 X-Fake-Domain: unknown X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Received: from unknown (HELO post.thorcom.com) (193.82.116.20) by netmail01.services.quay.plus.net with SMTP; 11 Nov 2003 11:59:15 -0000 X-Fake-Domain: majordom Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 1AJX96-0004aY-4o for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:57:20 +0000 Received: from [213.218.75.232] (helo=smtp03.freeler.nl) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AJX95-0004aP-7o for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:57:19 +0000 Received: (qmail 12876 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2003 11:57:18 -0000 X-Fake-Domain: unknown Received: from unknown (HELO w8k3f0.freeler.nl) ([62.21.146.187]) (envelope-sender ) by smtp03.freeler.nl (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 11 Nov 2003 11:57:17 -0000 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20031111124203.029ea850@POP3.freeler.nl> X-Sender: FRE0000086604@POP3.freeler.nl X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:56:50 +0100 To: "LF-Group" From: "Dick Rollema" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: LF: Topband Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on post.thorcom.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=2.60 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Spam-Rating: 2 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit To All from PA0SE,

Sorry  to use  the reflector for a non-lf topic but in this way I can reach many amateurs in the UK that can possibly help me with some info I require.

I am presently writing an article on the 160m band for our VERON magazine Electron.  This band is not as popular here as it was and still is in the UK. The reason is no doubt that only in 1962 we got a small segment, 1825 - 1835kHz, with a maximum allowed power of 10 W.

I found out that in the UK before World War II the band  available to amateurs was 1715 - 2000kHz.  In 1953 this was changed to 1800 - 2000 kHz.

My questions are:

1. Were there any power restrictions in the past and present?

2. Is the band still 1800 - 2000kHz?

Any additional info of interest is also appreciated.

There must be old timers around that  can help me and I thank them in advance.

73, Dick, PA0SE