[amsat-bb] Re: Amateur Satellite VHF Allocation

[Tony Langdon <vk3jed@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:37 PM 7/30/2007, Trevor wrote:
>There has been some discussion over the past year about the need for 
>an Amateur
>Satellite allocation at 50-51 MHz.

Which I can't see happening for some time, as there are still TV 
broadcast stations populating that band around the world.  We in 
eastern VK are limited to the top 2 MHz of the 6m band (52 - 54 MHz), 
as well as a DX window between 50 and 50.3 MHz, due to a small number 
of TV stations still occupying channel 0 (45 - 52 MHz).


>With yesterday's news about Amateur Operation in the form of experimental
>beacons at 40 MHz perhaps in 5-10 years time we may be able to get a few
>hundred kHz for Amateur Satellite at 40 MHz as well ? It certainly 
>would be low
>doppler shift and low path loss.

Interesting developments there.

73 de VK3JED
http://vkradio.com

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