WhiskeyChuck
Member
I was putting together a spreadsheet of the 2m and 70cm band plans as well as Q-codes as a cheat sheet to use after I get my technician. I left out 144-144.1 MHz as its CW only and I will be using an FM radio anyway. I also omitted 420-430 MHz because I will be operating north of "Line A". That left me with 430-432 MHz for "ATV simplex with 427.250-MHz video carrier frequency."
I am also a Jeeper and was planning on using HAM in simplex with 2 other licensed operators in my area while off-roading. "ATV simplex" sounded like a good part of the band to use, although I only have 2 MHz of it available in my area. The problem I saw; the "video carrier frequency" falls below the 430 MHz cutoff for Line A.
Now I know what a carrier is and I know what video is but I didn't know what the heck it had to do with ATV simplex, so I spent a couple hours searching "ATV simplex", "ATV video carrier", "video carrier frequency" etc. and every time I used "ATV" in my search I got results, especially in radio forums, exclusively talking about All Terrain Vehicle HAM use. I just couldn't connect the dots, so I registered here to ask you guys directly. Well after a forum search I found it to be Amateur Television lol. Now that makes sense, 446 on UHF it is.
Good ole acronyms... At first I though a LEO antenna was to pick up police scanner frequencies, until the technician course taught me about Low Earth Orbit. Then on this forum someone mentioned they knew (of) an LEO, and I immediately thought they were talking about a certain satellite until I read on and it wasn't making sense. They were talking about a cop friend haha. Learning all this has not been boring, that's for sure.
Anyone else have any slightly funny double uses of radio acronyms?
I am also a Jeeper and was planning on using HAM in simplex with 2 other licensed operators in my area while off-roading. "ATV simplex" sounded like a good part of the band to use, although I only have 2 MHz of it available in my area. The problem I saw; the "video carrier frequency" falls below the 430 MHz cutoff for Line A.
Now I know what a carrier is and I know what video is but I didn't know what the heck it had to do with ATV simplex, so I spent a couple hours searching "ATV simplex", "ATV video carrier", "video carrier frequency" etc. and every time I used "ATV" in my search I got results, especially in radio forums, exclusively talking about All Terrain Vehicle HAM use. I just couldn't connect the dots, so I registered here to ask you guys directly. Well after a forum search I found it to be Amateur Television lol. Now that makes sense, 446 on UHF it is.
Good ole acronyms... At first I though a LEO antenna was to pick up police scanner frequencies, until the technician course taught me about Low Earth Orbit. Then on this forum someone mentioned they knew (of) an LEO, and I immediately thought they were talking about a certain satellite until I read on and it wasn't making sense. They were talking about a cop friend haha. Learning all this has not been boring, that's for sure.
Anyone else have any slightly funny double uses of radio acronyms?