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.
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