>   Re: Re: Wannbe HAM   
    >   By: Tony Langdon to Joe Delahaye on Fri Sep 16 2016 18:41:00   
    >   
    >JD>> then they gave us Side Band.  A lot of us stayed on USB, and of   
    >JD>> course some of us just happened to get into the lower end of 10   
    >JD>> meter .  I   
    >   
    >TL> Here, they gave us UHF, then 18 channels of AM/SSB with a unique band   
    >TL> plan, and finally American style 40 channels AM/SSB.   
    >   
    > Originally it was 23 channels.  When the 40 channel sets came in, it   
      
   Actually, originally it was 19 in Canada channels, 1, 2, 3,  & 23 were not   
   permitted for the first few years.   
      
      
      
    > became   
    > illegal to sell the older sets.  Not sure why.   
    >   
    >   
    >JD>> ran a very successful net for a few years, but only on the legal   
    >JD>> channels.  Things died down, in the late 80s here.  During all this   
    >JD>> time, I was trying to get my Ham license, but kept failing to get   
    >JD>> the required wpm in CW.  Needed 12 at that time.  Tried three times,   
    >JD>> and then they came in with No-Code, and I got my Basic Licence.   
    >JD>> Last change they made I got grandfathered in to HF   
    >   
    >TL> A bunch of us in the sticks used to hang out on both bands. Having 2   
    > bands   
    >TL> at our disposal, we were able to setup ad-hoc links manually (speaker   
    > to   
    >TL> microphone!), and cover quite a wide area. Took a little thinking who   
    > had   
    >TL> to transmit on which band for the links to work (UHF simplex and 27 MHz   
    >TL> SSB), but it was quite effective for linking wide areas without a   
    >TL> traditional repeater.   
    >   
    > Igineuity   We used to practice CW on Sideband    
    > --- SBBSecho 3.00-Win32   
    >  * Origin: The Lions Den BBS, Trenton, On, CDN (1:249/303)   
      
      
   --- GEcho/32 & IM 2.50   
    * Origin: DE VE5XEF (1:140/12)