Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog

Belgium and Eire have amateur allocations at 8m. Luxembourg may have one soon. South Africa has one.  I am unsure about Slovenia and Croatia...

As I could not immediately see on the RSGB website to whom it should be sent , I sent my 8m CEPT proposal to the RSGB General Manager with a...

Before I start, there are no plans for this.  However, the band is now available to radio amateurs in at least 2 CEPT countries and in many ...

Southgate News reports that Austrian amateurs will have access to these bands. See  http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2020/december/austria-...

Although several years off, CEPT has agreed on the items to be on the agenda of WRC-23 according to Southgate News . It seems likely that ba...

France has proposed the re-allocation of the 144-146MHz band to aeronautical mobile. In the distant past I seem to recall having to avoid ...

Apparently CEPT is discussing 6m as part of the agenda of its meeting this month in Tallinn. I cannot imagine this will be a high priority, ...

Southgate News reports on the IARU Region 1 Conference in Germany next month. I hope they discuss a 4m allocation in Region 1 . At one time...

Southgate News has an interesting piece linking to the CEPT pages about amateur radio. See http://www.cept.org/ecc/topics/radio-amateurs/ .

This article appeared on the 70MHz website last week. It may mean 4m becomes a common European amaallocation in the near future?  At the ve...