[Elecraft] Secondary Allocation at 472-479 kHz Approved at WRC-12

2012-02-14 Thread W0FK
Per ARRL, delegates attending the 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12) have approved a new 7-kilohertz-wide secondary allocation between 472-479 kHz for the Amateur Radio Service. http://www.arrl.org/news/view/amateur-radio-gets-secondary-mf-allocation-at-wrc-12 Implementation won't

Re: [Elecraft] Secondary Allocation at 472-479 kHz Approved at WRC-12

2012-02-14 Thread Wayne Burdick
The K3's synthesizer was never intended to go below 550 kHz, originally. We changed the firmware to get it to 490, but to get to 472 may require a hardware modification to the synthesizer that adversely affect coverage of other bands. So I can't guarantee anything. But once the new band is