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40MHz amateur band?
3 April 2015 | by Well, I had a letter today from an amateur in South Africa who I hear have been allocated a small band at 40MHz. There are already a couple of EU beacons around 40MHz (OZ and G).
It would be so good if OFCOM here in the UK saw the real value in even a very small, shared band around 40MHz. Instead, we get given chunks (1MHz at 2m and 1MHz at 4m) which will hardly get touched by most. Surely a small 100kHz shared band at 40MHz that would really be of value to radio science has merit?
Of course, allocating ad interim chunks of unused spectrum to the amateur service is a “no-brainer” for dear old OFCOM. Fine doing this, but there would have been far better options, but these would have needed brain engagement, so out of the question? I hope that the RSGB and OFCOM talk some more and add new bits of spectrum soon.
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40Mhz is definitely a interesting frequency area i listen to it alot due to local military traffic with antennas that are absolutely not built for 40 mhz and yet some days there is french english russian and other unidentified languages.