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 are a very few beacons around 40MHz (UK and Denmark only I believe) but wouldn't it be good to have even 100kHz around this frequency? Sadly it is very unlikely, but I would happily lose 100kHz at the top of 10m in exchange. It would also be a very useful Es band.
Somehow I can't see this happening, more is the pity. The world of radio science would really benefit. This would have been so much more useful than 146-147MHz recently released to UK amateurs by NoV. I know a handful of UK amateurs are trying narrowband DTV but the 2m band is mainly Japanese "black boxes" and is mostly white noise in most areas.
7 Feb 2015
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Nice idea Roger. Even if we did have it, you might be the only one on there! The lower VHF 29-70Mhz region is interesting though.
Is there much commercial pressure on that region? We will loose so much VHF/UHF spectrum in the next decade that low band might be whats left!
Cheers. G8JGO.
Oh forgot to say - we can, collectivity, keep 50MHz from being a wasteland 99% of the time, so what leverage do we have at 40MHz?
2m is largely a wasteland too around here! Personally I am in favour of radio amateurs doing REAL radio science rather than just talking on a Japanese radio to the fellow down the street. Several bands I would consider would allow this such as below 8.3kHz, around 73kHz, 40MHz and 60MHz. In each case the take-up might be small in numbers but real experiments could be done. Even shared access would be fine.
It seems odd to me that OFCOM could allocate (ad interim) a whole 1000kHz at 146-147MHz whereas allocating a (shared) total of few hundred kilohertz elsewhere in the spectrum is so very hard. Even a low power ERP restriction would be OK, say 1W ERP at VF/LF and 10W ERP at VHF.
Gb3ral beacon transmits on both 40Mhz
and 60Mhz. A quick Google should give
information.
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