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5MHz world wide contiguous 60m amateur band?
23 January 2015 | by Around the world, several administrations allow some access to 5MHz for amateurs. Mostly, these are channelised allocations, which are far from ideal. What is needed is a continuous 60m band, say 200kHz wide. There was/is some hope of this being allocated to the amateur service at WRC2015 which is due to take place late this year.
I wonder what the chances of radio amateurs getting this band are? I have rather lost touch with the news on this. Certainly it was to be an agenda item. With decreasing solar activity, this would be ideal for the amateur community. I do hope it happens. Even if allocated at WRC2015, it could be a few years before administrations can make the necessary changes. If anyone has any further news I’d appreciate being updated.
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with the rise of commercial sattelites soon they have zero intrest in HF.
while id love 5Mhz inbeteww when 7 dies and 3 rises or something
as long its used were secondary. but i promise you the day will come when HF is just QRM and Ham Radio. Hf is horrible for any practical use. and as soon any agency can find a SAT alternative they will use it.
cuse my typoes friday i think and Finnish so the beer flows
here in the USA, we just this past year got the allowance to up our power from a limit of 50 watts pep to 100 watts pep on the 60m band [most other bands we are allotted 1,500 kilowatts pep]. we also gained the allowance to use modes other then ssb [usb to be specific] and cw on 60m [now we can do pactor, psk31 and rtty … also jt65 modes in theory based on bandwidth size lol]
anyhow, once we got those allowances, at least here in the northwestern USA, usage increased!
Our FCC seems to be contemplating a few routes for WRC2015 … some routes are just playing games, but some ideas being pushed by some powerful lobbists are for a large allotment in 60m! [which makes sense since it seems lightly used by governments and radiolocation]
I hope we get this band, world wide, to a larger extend … even a block of the band on a secondary basis and I would be happy!
73
~j