You have exceeded your license class priveledges OM!

[ve6pg]

..hey tom...so what i was looking at, was a ARRL thing?...RAC here in canada, has a "band plan", which is actually very different from the official industry canada allowances....

..sk..

[KA1ZGC]

Tim,

You're reading it wrong. You're probably looking at the ARRL's red-and-green chart of different license class allocations.

With the exception of 60 meters, CW is allowed everywhere.

For example, on 80: No phone modes are permitted below 3600. CW, RTTY, and other quantized modes are all that's allowed. Above 3600, all those same modes are allowed, plus AM, PM, FM, and SSB.

Same goes for the other HF bands. On 6 and 2, there are similar 100 kHz no-phone subbands at the bottom, the rest is wide open. 160 is wide open. 60 meters consists of four USB-only channels.

Wide-open space (160, VHF, UHF, and beyond) is left for voluntary bandplans. 80, 40, 20, 17, 15, 12, and 10 are subject to mandatory restrictions on phone operation in the lower portions.

So, if you're looking at the red-and-green ARRL chart, the green area has all the same permissions as the red, plus voice.

[KA1ZGC]

Oops!  I won't lie guys, I made the same stupid mistake when I got my General way back when.  I was at W9YT (the Univ. of Wisconsin club station), using the club's TS-830S.  Either I called CQ, or answered a CQ on 7170.

If there was an Extra in the room, you'd have been covered. You were operating under the callsign of a license with Extra priveledges.

I've never done it that I know of, but I have caught myself trying to get a 40 meter dip way above the top end of the band on my Ranger once or twice. I forget where you wind up when you're on 3885 and flip the rig to 40 meters without moving the VFO, but I've visited there a handful of times. Oopsie.

Not a problem now I've got more practice switching the whole lash-up between 80 and 40.

[k4kyv]

I've run across a callsign or two that wasn't on qrz.com but sure enough was in the FCC database for years and is still valid.  I operate with a computer in front of me so I often do look up callsigns on QRZ.com, not to "check validity", but to gain more information about the contact, maybe put a face to the voice or get a website link. 

You can't trust the QRZ.com website.  If you meet the disapproval of the administrators in any way, you may be "delisted".

A prime example of this is Kevin Alfred Strom, WB4AIO, a former AM'er from back in the 70's, who later gained international notoriety for his involvement with white supremacist hate groups .  He was on quite a few "faeces lists" for a long time, before he was finally busted in 2007 after an alleged child porn image was discovered on a computer hard drive.  Immediately, QRZ.com deleted his listing from their lookup site, even though he was still in the FCC data base.

[AF9J]

Oops!  I won't lie guys, I made the same stupid mistake when I got my General way back when.  I was at W9YT (the Univ. of Wisconsin club station), using the club's TS-830S.  Either I called CQ, or answered a CQ on 7170.

If there was an Extra in the room, you'd have been covered. You were operating under the callsign of a license with Extra priveledges.

I've never done it that I know of, but I have caught myself trying to get a 40 meter dip way above the top end of the band on my Ranger once or twice. I forget where you wind up when you're on 3885 and flip the rig to 40 meters without moving the VFO, but I've visited there a handful of times. Oopsie.

Not a problem now I've got more practice switching the whole lash-up between 80 and 40.

Nope Thom, no Extra.  I was the only one in the club station at the time.  So, if the FCC wanted to, they could have pink slipped me.

Ellen - AF9J

[WD8BIL]

It shud be, "Here's your band edges and here's your power limits - now stay within them and operate any legal mode you want."

Hmmmmm...... what a novel idea!