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From: "John RABSON" <john.rabson@wanadoo.fr>
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The other reason for a dearth of international activity on top band 40 years ago was that much of the USA did not have a top band allocation.  I can't be specific as my copy of the ARRL handbook for the era has disappeared.

73
John G3PAI

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On 06/01/2006 at 18:37 Alan Melia wrote:

>Hi John what a difference, in the UK top band was the 2m of its day.
>Whilst there were a few the DXers, it was used a lot for local chatting
>(AM of course) and inter-G activity. The only other country in Europe
>licenced for it them was OK. We were limited to 10watts DC input in the
>late 50s and 60s.....great fun....easy construction (well compared with
>2m) .....  I learned a lot of radio playing up there.
>
>Yes Loran-A sterilized a portion of the band between about 1920 and 1980
>in the UK, but a good noise limiter could be quite useful.
>
>Cheers de Alan G3NYK
>
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: WarmSpgs@aol.com 
>  To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org 
>  Sent: 06 January 2006 18:06
>  Subject: Re: Re[2]: LF: Loran Line or U.S. MedFER?
>
>
>  >  ...multiple bandsaws fading in and out with their relative phases
>wobbling around like the efforts of a not very good disco DJ.
>
>  Excellent description, John!  And a rather slow disco DJ, at that.
>
>  Here, I believe the frequency span was roughly 1700 to 1900.  One could
>often hear them with an AM broadcast receiver, and 160m was largely the
>Unknown & Barely Usable Ham Band.