Emergency Communications Special: Six Meters to the Rescue!
Oct 01, 2022
3 minutes
BY RICH STIEBEL,* W6APZ
It was an ice cold but sunny winter day in Chicago and I was happily tuning the 6-meter band on my car radio on my work commute when suddenly I heard an emergency call.
Back in the 1960s, operating on the 6-meter amateur band was considered pushing the envelope of what hams could do. International Crystal Manufacturing made a two-tube PC board converter which would convert.
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