My suggestion would be to stay well clear of the APRS frequency. In my
experience over the last several years, weak signal work and near by FM don't
always seem to co exist well.
73
Mark S
VE7AFZ
Mark Spencer
Aligned Solutions Co.
mark@alignedsolutions.com
604 762 4099
> On Oct 16, 2017, at 5:48 PM, Dana <ve3ds@acanac.net> wrote:
>
> Try this again…e mail problems today after the storm...
>
> Steve & all there hasn’t been any OSCAR ops in decades there…unless its
> control frequencies (??) - the ARRL bandplan hasn’t been tweaked since the
> early 80’s…
>
> …but the RAC Canadian bandplan has digital at 144.3 -144.5
> I’m sure we can all fit in there…so as not to QRM EME operations , but we’d
> have to see about APRS and digi Fm operations too…I’m sure we can though
>
> On 432 I’d suggest going up above 432.2 so that high ERP stations arent qrmed
> or cause qrm….
>
> On 222 I’d suggest going above 222.2 also
>
> Comments?
>
> 73
> Dana VE3DS
>
>
> On Oct 15, 2017, at 07:02, Steve Kavanagh via VHFcontesting
> <vhfcontesting@contesting.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Pete
>
> I am not sure 144.174 for FT8 would work very well in the east. Outside of
> contests it would likely be fine but during contests, SSB/CW activity almost
> always extends down to .170 (top multi-op W2SZ/1 is always there!) and
> sometimes to .165.
>
> I wondered about 144.313, but I see ARRL lists this as an OSCAR subband,
> which seems odd since it seems to be incompatible with the Region 1 band plan
> (https://iaru-r1.org/index.php/spectrum-and-band-plans/vhf/2-meter). I think
> 144.313 would be ok with respect to the (rather antiquated) Canadian band
> plan (http://wp.rac.ca/144-mhz-2m-page/ ).
>
> 73,
> Steve VE3SMA
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