In Episode 131, Brennan Price led us through the steps that may end in the WRC-15 creating a ham band at 5 MHz (60 Meters). Yay. Yes, we in the US and many other countries have a little spectrum at 60 - mostly set up as individual "channels" rather than the traditional ham band we're used to. But the ITU Radio Regulations have no ham band there. There's a plan afoot for the WRC to approve a real band. So Gary got to thinking, there's something nice about those 60 meter "channels" that he likes: no interference from stations snuggling in a little too close for comfort like seems to always happen on the other bands where hams have the freedom to plunk down a signal anywhere in the band they want to. Why not expand that concept to the whole new band? Well, nobody else is going to like it. But what the heck. If he's going to impose his will on everyone, he'll have to get started. We've got until February 18 (2014) to file comments with the FCC. Gary wrote up his comments, and then decided to do a show about it. So he hooked up with Jeff AC4ZO on Skype (Jeff had a cold), and they talked about it for almost an hour, until Jeff had to go. Then Gary prattled on for yet another hour. This is Part 1!

• published: 11 Feb 2014
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