[TenTec] 60 Meters

[Kevin Purcell]

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>

On Jul 3, 2007, at 3:17 AM, Bill Rowlett wrote:

> I quess you said CB because you have never seen or used a Marine or
> Commercial HF radio. Both use channels.
>
> So, lets keep the snide remarks about CB where they belong.
>
>
> KC4ATU
>
>
>
>> From: "philip c anderson" <flypca at hotmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
>> To: tentec at contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] 60 Meters
>> Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:25:50 -0400
>>
>> More CB influence, get used to it.
>>
>>
>>> From: john.brewer at us.schneider-electric.com
>>> Reply-To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
>>> To: tentec at contesting.com
>>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] 60 Meters
>>> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:01:50 -0400
>>>
>>> I will never get used to  the term "channels"  as applied to HF.....
>>>
>>> sigh...
>>>
>>> John k5mo
>>>
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Kevin Purcell
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