The United Kingdom communications regulator Ofcom have announced the restrictions on the use of the 430, 2300 and 3400 MHz bands as a result of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The restrictions apply from June 28 until September 23.
They impact the Amateur-satellite Service frequencies from 436.25-437.25 MHz.
Further information and links are on the AMSAT-UK website at
73 Trevor M5AKA
I guess OFCOM doesn't understand that satellite downlinks like AO-27's and SO-50's don't respect international borders, and certainly won't shut down just to accommodate their foolhardy choice of frequencies...
George, KA3HSW
----- Original Message ----- From: "Trevor ." [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 1:32 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Use of Amateur Satellite Frequencies by Olympic andParalympic Games
The United Kingdom communications regulator Ofcom have announced the restrictions on the use of the 430, 2300 and 3400 MHz bands as a result of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The restrictions apply from June 28 until September 23.
They impact the Amateur-satellite Service frequencies from 436.25-437.25 MHz.
Further information and links are on the AMSAT-UK website at
73 Trevor M5AKA
On 21/04/12 04:58, George Henry wrote:
I guess OFCOM doesn't understand that satellite downlinks like AO-27's and SO-50's don't respect international borders, and certainly won't shut down just to accommodate their foolhardy choice of frequencies...
George, KA3HSW
Especially when you consider that it's a tiny chunk of England that is affected. It's not going to stop me using 70cm.
If they've any sense, they'll stay out of the passband of the handful of working 70cm downlinks, though.
Yeah, that's right....one certainly wouldn't take the unselfish high road and just let the disabled athletes have the air for 10 days or so. Playing with your ham radio is much more important than that...
"The 2012 Summer Paralympic Games will be the fourteenth Paralympics and will take place between 29 August and 9 September 2012. The Games will be held in London, United Kingdom after the city was successful with its bid for the Paralympics and Summer Olympic Games.
Even though 2012 will be London's third Olympic Games, it will be the first Paralympic Games to be staged there, as the event was created after the last time the city hosted in 1948. It is however the second time that the United Kingdom hosts a Paralympic Games. The 1984 Summer Paralympics were hosted in both Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom and Long Island, New York, United States. Also, the first organized athletic event for athletes with a disability that coincided with the Olympic Games took place on the day of the opening of the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. Dr. Ludwig Guttmann of Stoke Mandeville Hospital[1] hosted a sports competition for British World War II veteran patients with spinal cord injuries. The first games were called the 1948 International Wheelchair Games, and were intended to coincide with the 1948 Olympics.[2] Dr. Guttman's aim was to create an elite sports competition for people with disabilities that would be equivalent to the Olympic Games.[2] The games were held again at the same location in 1952, and Dutch veterans took part alongside the British, making it the first international competition of its kind. These early competitions, also known as the Stoke Mandeville Games, have been described as the precursors of the Paralympic Games.[3"
Your attitude makes me sick
73, Ted, K7TRK
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gordon JC Pearc e Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 2:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Use of Amateur Satellite Frequencies by Olympic andParalympic Games
On 21/04/12 04:58, George Henry wrote:
I guess OFCOM doesn't understand that satellite downlinks like AO-27's and SO-50's don't respect international borders, and certainly won't shut down just to accommodate their foolhardy choice of frequencies...
George, KA3HSW
Especially when you consider that it's a tiny chunk of England that is affected. It's not going to stop me using 70cm.
If they've any sense, they'll stay out of the passband of the handful of working 70cm downlinks, though.
On 24/04/12 23:31, Ted wrote:
Yeah, that's right....one certainly wouldn't take the unselfish high road and just let the disabled athletes have the air for 10 days or so. Playing with your ham radio is much more important than that...
You may be missing the point a little.
This has been widely trumpeted in the more US-centric mailing lists as "everyone in the UK is banned from 70cm for ever!!111!!!"
Maybe *you* should stay off 70cm too, just in case by some chance a freak of propagation causes your signal to scoot across the pond and interfere with the London olympic games. Note that I say *London* olympics. That's because they're (mostly) in London. The exclusion zone is around London, too.
Notice where London is? It's in the south of England. Notice my callsign at the end of each email I send? Where is it from?
You are closer to San Francisco by a comfortable margin than I am to London. How well do you manage to work into Fresno on 70cm?
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