The stated objective for permission to use the 60-meter channels was not to acquire more spectrum for casual operating. It was to provide communications frequencies between 80 and 40 meters needed by the various emergency nets, particularly the hurricane nets in the southeast, who often found the skip too long on 40 and too short on 80.
Of course casual operation is perfectly okay as long as the channel isn't being used by an emergency net or the primary holder of the allocation. Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- Me thinks the ARRL AND the FCC made a mistake when it originally allocated the channelized 60m Amateure band. It would have been smarter to allocate a continuous band as Mike suggests. It didn't have to be 60m. It could have been a continuous segment of the old 11m band. 73, Tom Amateur Radio Operator N5GE ARRL Lifetime Member QCWA Lifetime Member ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
