Nervous Mouse Syndrome

[Bob McConnell]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>     I doubt that it is Ham Radio interference. The mouse stuff is around 
> 2400 Mhz and most Ham stuff now is lower than  10 MHz.
> 
> Karl

Hi Karl,

Where did you get that idea? Most of the Amateur Radio operators around 
here are on 2 Meters (144-148 MHz), with quite a few playing around on 6 
M (50 MHz), 1.25 M (222 Mhz), 70 cM (420 MHz) and 33 cM (902 MHz). I can 
hit multiple repeaters and digi-peaters on 2 M and 70 cM from my home. 
Climbing a nearby hill almost doubles the possibilities.

The most active short wave bands in daytime are 30 M (10.1 MHz) 20 M 
(14MHz) and 17 M (18 MHz).  40 M (7 MHz) is popular during the night, 
but shared with a number of broadcasters, so we're glad we have 80 M 
(3.5 MHz). The higher bands, 10 M (28MHz), 12 M (24 MHz) and 15 M 
(21MHz) are relatively quiet right now as we are at the low ebb in the 
11 year sunspot cycle, so the ionosphere is too thin to reflect them 
back to earth. They will begin to get stronger in a couple of years, 
peaking about five years from now. Just for reference, CB in the USA is 
on 11 M (27 MHz).

There is also a popular band at 1240 MHz that is often used for 
telemetry, remote control and Earth-Moon-Earth bounce.

At least one of the wireless-G bands is also shared with Amateur Radio. 
We are allowed to use much more power than the unlicensed wireless 
cards, but we also have to insert our call sign into the data stream at 
least once every ten minutes, can't use encryption and can't transmit 
any commercial messages.

Bob McConnell
N2SPP