The 219-220 Hz band was created by the FCC to compensate for the loss of 220-222 MHz. It can only be used for fixed packet radio links (see 97.303 (e)) and not for normal QSOs.
73,
John KD6OZH
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tyler Harpster" tyler881@comcast.net To: "James Duffey" JamesDuffey@comcast.net; "G8IFF/KC8NHF" nigel@ngunn.net Cc: "AMSAT" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 17:58 UTC Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: 220 MHz Radios and Region 2 Hams - 219 to 220 MHzdata only?
So what is this rumored spectrum from 219 to 220 that I see every once in a while? I think I saw that it's for data link use only? Does anyone use that 1 MHz worth of spectrum?
Tyler KM3G
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