Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

 I was totally unaware of some of the historical allocations at 8m. It seems there are historical precedents. See  https://en.wikipedia.org/...

As I have mentioned before, I expect we will see this band (or small part of it) allocated to the amateur service eventually. For several ye...

Southgate News reports on a 4el yagi for the 8m band.  This band is gradually gaining traction. It would not surprise me if we got a narrow...

As far as I know, the blog of EI7GL has the best data on the 40MHz (8m) band. This was allocated in Eire some years ago and a few amateurs i...

John, EI7GL , seems to have the best information on 8m allocations. I have asked John if he is aware of other countries/stations that have b...

Southgate News reports that a new 8m (40MHz) beacon EI1KNH is active in Eire with 20W and a vertical. See  http://www.southgatearc.org/ne...

It is some time since I caught up on who has access to the 8m band (40MHz). Southgate News reports on an FT8 QSO between EI and LY. I did no...

Although there are a very few beacons operational around 40MHz, very few countries have an amateur band at 8m. I have lobbied the RSGB for a...

Amateurs in Eire have been given generous allocations at low VHF and a bandplan has now been created. This aligns with allocations made in o...

This came in from John EI7GL : "Hi Roger You might be interested in the new proposed 8m and 5m bandplans in EI. This was on the ...

From John's blog comes news of huge chunks of VHF spectrum being made available to EI amateurs. In my view, this is very enlightened. ...

Re a small 40MHz allocation to help with Es research, this was on the RSGB forum earlier: In the ITU Radio Regs, please remember there is ...

Yesterday I heard from LY2YR that there is a small 8m allocation in Slovenia as well as in South Africa. There is an IARU meeting next ye...

Read it first hand in: www.icasa.org.za/Portals/0/Regulations/Working%20Docmuents/Radio%20Frequency%20Spectrum%20Regulations/RFSR2015.pdf ...

Well, I had a letter today from an amateur in South Africa who I hear have been allocated a small band at 40MHz. There are already a couple ...

An amateur band at 40MHz would be really useful as I suspect the F2 MUF has been in this region several times in the last few years. There a...