[TenTec] 60 Meters

[ron]

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"