United States Supports Secondary Amateur Radio Allocation at 461-469 and 471-478 kHz

[ARRL]

The Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) -- the spectrum regulators for United States private sector and government users, respectively -- have agreed to support a secondary MF allocation to the Amateur Radio Service at 461-469 kHz and 471-478 kHz at the 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12), to be held in Geneva...





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[KingCobra_CDX882]

Sweet..

Will need to keep up on that

 

[office888]

650m band?

Sounds like fun.

Too bad I barely have yard space for 160m!

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

I wonder why the gap from 469-471 KHz.

 

[TonyV225]

Im wondering the same thing why the gap and what the hells going to be there or whats it saved for???

 

[office888]

Im wondering the same thing why the gap and what the hells going to be there or whats it saved for???

This band used to be used for emergency ship-to-shore morse, so I imagine that's the part where most SOS LW transmitters are tuned to?

 

[kd-5-bgt]

I wonder why the gap from 469-471 KHz

Maybe it is for talking to ET?