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December 15th band-warming partyVintage radio hobbyists in the United States will celebrate the federal goverment's expansion of the 75 meter phone band with a 'bandwarming' party from 3600-3800Kc starting at 0500 GMT Dec. 15, 2006. The festivities are slated to begin Thursday evening December 14th, when vintage radio enthusiasts in Canada will gather around several frequencies between 3700-3800, where they already enjoy phone privileges. The Federal Communications Commission, as part of a decision to enlarge and more closely match the size of the 75 meter phone band with levels of activity, has specified enactment at midnight, Eastern time. A number of U.S. stations have been granted the use of Special Event 1x1 Call Signs to help commemorate the regulatory upgrade. By coincidence, December 2006 marks 100 years since radio pioneer experimenter Reginald Fesseden's celebrated Amplitude Modulation broadcasts, considered by many to be the first voice and music signals to be heard by the public audience for wireless. The 'bandwarming' of 2006 will again feature the AM mode, as vintage radio enthusiasts warm up their vacuum tube gear on a December night a century later.
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