On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 13:57 -0700, Kevin Purcell wrote:
> Remember that 60m isn't a full privilege amateur band. Yet.
>
> It's a domestic, secondary allocation shared with fixed/mobile
> service for evaluation purposes hence the "worse than secondary",
> "odd frequency notation", USB, channel assignments and ERP power
> restrictions.
>
> But even given the restrictions N8S operated DX on channels and the
> result wasn't chaos. There are quite a few people "chasing" DX on 60m.
>
> If one of the government radio administrations (Canada?) propose a
> amateur allocation at 60m at WRC 2009 we may see a full (300kHz,
> hopefully) all mode band.
>
> The RSGB runs the UK 5MHz experiment was(is) run to evaluate the band
> in a more rigorous manner (i.e. you need a Notice of Variation on
> your license to operate there and to get that you have to propose the
> experiments that you intend to do). Interoperation with military
> cadets who also use the same channels is permitted too. They also
> permitted CW and other narrow modes like PSK 31 on the carrier
> frequency of each channel. This is an interesting form of reuse of
> space (there is that 200 or so chuck up from that carrier that the
> SSB sets can't hear) interleaving multiple modes. They also run a
> beacon network for propagation evaluation.
>
> More details:
>
> <http://www.rsgb-spectrumforum.org.uk/5mhz%20experiment.htm>
> <http://g4irx.nowindows.net/fivemegs/comparison.php>
>
> <http://60meters.info/websites.html>
> <http://www.hflink.com/5mhz/>
>
> <http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/faq-60.html>
>
Thanks Kevin for that informative email.
I knew it was an interesting band (smile).
Ron, wb1hga
"the 516 is a keeper"
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