[Lowfer] Hello 185.3!

[John Davis]

>BTW, speaking of topics: What are we going to call these new bands where
the
>newly identified pirate beacons are located?  My suggestion, that would
>cover all of them, is "PirateFer", or "PiFer" for short.


Or maybe Pirates & Unaccountable... P.U. for even shorter.

>John D: Are they an acceptable topic for the LWCA?

Dunno.  Some folks question including HiFERs, but given that most of them
are operated by the same people who run MedFERs and LowFERs, I think any
wall between actual Part 15 categories is an artificial distinction.

As for PUers, however, we have previously reported on them for academic
interest.  I doubt that we'd ever publish plans for how to participate or
anything.  For one thing, if we started reporting in much detail it would
probably have a dampening effect on the phenomenon, given that FCC staffers
do look in on our Web site from time to time.

And think how an unknown number of cryptic radiobeacons scattered throughout
the desert must look to the Homeland Security folks.  Who are these wayposts
guiding, and for what nefarious purpose?  Oooooh.

(As for exciters--in most fields of communication these days, I hear that
smaller exciters are OK, but the real issue is which one lasts longer.)

John D.