At 01:07 AM 3/16/2008, Trevor wrote:
Over 40 DXCC countries have an Amateur band at 70 MHz but that suffers from the same lack of commercial rigs as 220 in the states.
I feel that unless an Amateur band is available globally it's just not going to be worth any manufacturer producing rigs for it. So it'll be up to Amateurs to design and build their own rigs for their "local" bands.
73 Trevor M5AKA
Which was brought home for me when I recently bought the MFJ-269 Antenna Analyzer: covers 1.8-170; 415-470 MHz which nicely skips the 222-MHz band. Oh well it will be quite useful for the frequencies it does cover.
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