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Subject: [SECC] Frequency Allocations
From: aldermant at alltel.net (Tommy)
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:07:44 -0400
In  order to make sure I was (at least half-way) correct in what I 
said previously, the below (edited) information is from the ARRL web 
site. The ARRL calls this the US Frequency Allocations, but it does 
not specify by whose 'authority' this chart was generated. It also 
offers to sell you the FCC Rules and/or their Licenses Manual which 
they state has a full disclosure (?). I have edited out all licenses 
classes with the exception of Extra, simply to shorten the list.

It does seem to me (and always has) like the 'RTTY gang' and the Data 
operators have full right to operate RTTY and DATA on the very same 
frequencies as us CW guys. Note, there are no frequencies set aside 
on 80m for state traffic nets, so if RTTY/DATA happens upon a state 
net's favorite frequency, remember, they have the RIGHT to operate on 
that frequency also. I seriously doubt that outside of contest, any 
RTTY or DATA operator is intentionally going to QRM a 
state/region/area traffic net.

So, if this information from the ARRL is correct, operating RTTY or 
DATA transmission is perfectly correct on 7.040, or 7.025, or 7.010 
MHz, or any frequency in the first 150 kc of the 40m band, and the 
same is true for CW. Whether either side likes it or not. One will 
also notice that the majority of time, outside of contesting, CW ops 
tend to stay out of the 'RTTY segment' and the RTTY guys (with the 
exception of foreign commercial stuff) tend to stay out of the CW 
segments, with the exception of 7.040 MHz which is a necessary RTTY 
DX calling frequency.

I've been a die-hard CW operator for 54 years. If I were unable to 
adapt to change, my feathers would have been ruffled many more times, 
and all I would have gotten in return is more heart-burn.

Tom - W4BQF



160 Meters

General, Advanced, Amateur Extra licensees:
1.800-2.000 MHz: CW, Phone, Image, RTTY/Data


80 Meters

Amateur Extra class:
3.500-3.750 MHz: CW, RTTY/Data 3.750-4.000 MHz: CW, Phone, Image



60 Meters: Five Specific Channels

The FCC has granted hams secondary access on USB only to five 
discrete 2.8-kHz-wide channels. Amateurs can not cause inference to 
and must accept interference from the Primary Government users. The 
NTIA says that hams planning to operate on 60 meters "must assure 
that their signal is transmitted on the channel center frequency." 
This means that amateurs should set their carrier frequency 1.5 kHz 
lower than the channel center frequency.

General, Advanced and Amateur Extra classes:


40 Meters

Amateur Extra class:
7.000-7.150 MHz: CW, RTTY/Data 7.150-7.300 MHz: CW, Phone, Image


30 Meters

General, Advanced, Amateur Extra classes:
10.100-10.150 MHz: CW, RTTY/Data


20 Meters

Amateur Extra class:
14.000-14.150 MHz: CW, RTTY/Data 14.150-14.350 MHz: CW, Phone, Image

17 Meters

General, Advanced, Amateur Extra classes:
18.068-18.110 MHz: CW, RTTY/Data 18.110-18.168 MHz: CW, Phone, Image

15 Meters

Amateur Extra class:
21.000-21.200 MHz: CW, RTTY/Data 21.200-21.450 MHz: CW, Phone, Image

12 Meters

General, Advanced, Amateur Extra classes:
24.890-24.930 MHz: CW, RTTY/Data 24.930-24.990 MHz: CW, Phone, Image

10 Meters

General, Advanced, Amateur Extra classes:
28.000-28.300 MHz: CW, RTTY/Data 28.300-29.700 MHz: CW, Phone, Image

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