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N8FNR

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Uh what??!!

http://www.arrl.org/news/no-strong-opposition-to-144-146-mhz-reallocation-proposal-at-cept-meeting

06/25/2019
A World Radiocommunication Conference 2023 (WRC-23) agenda item proposing to study a range of frequencies, including potentially reassigning 144 – 146 MHz as a primary Aeronautical Mobile Service allocation, drew little opposition at a meeting of the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) Project Team A. The team is responsible for some aspects of CEPT WRC positions, and the meeting was held June 17 – 21 in Prague, Czech Republic. Introduced by France, the proposal targeting 144 – 146 MHz would be part of a broader consideration of spectrum allocated to the Aeronautical Mobile Service. Another issue addressed during the meeting concerned the sharing of the Amateur Radio 1240 – 1300 MHz band with Europe’s Galileo GPS system.

“We hear only one admin[istration] (Germany) opposed the 144 MHz proposal — no one else,” the UK Microwave Group tweeted following the meeting. Otherwise, it has been carried forward to the higher-level CEPT Conference Preparatory Group (CPG) meeting in August.

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WB8VLC

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Who really cares what the Europeans do with 2 meters?

Also if you listen to 144-148MHz and the other VHF/UHF bands here in the US it's obvious that they only get used infrequently between drive to work and drive home times and at in-between times there is nothing except for the infrequent 2 hams who are a mile away from each other testing out their Boefeng's talking about their colostomy bags and other useless dribble ham nonsense thru a local repeater for 2 or 3 minutes a day then nothing but silence for another 20 hours or more.

2 meters and all the other VHF/UHF bands have been dead  for the past 20 years that I remember.

 I can scan the entire band any day from a nice high QTH and hear only dead air so even if it happened in the US it wouldn't be a major loss.

Putting it to use for someone who is going to use it is a fine idea just like all the other ham bands that have turned into where 99% of the activity is on one frequency where the FT8 masses congregate.
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AE5GT

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Latest 2 Meter News .....

Historic 2-Meter Transatlantic Contact Reported.... And Nobody Cared.

That pretty much sums up 2 meters.
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WB8VLC

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Latest 2 Meter News .....

Historic 2-Meter Transatlantic Contact Reported.... And Nobody Cared.

That pretty much sums up 2 meters.


It was an FT8 QSO, so who cares.
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KB8VUL

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Well, that's half our allocation and the full allocation for the UK as they only have 144 to 146.
THe ITU or whoever it is that is thinking about this stupidity isn't closely considering the fact that there are a boatload or radios out there that will still get used on those bands.
Doing this would be about like re purposing 27Mhz into something other than CB radio.  And is this a global change or just in the UK?  I doubt that the ARRL FCC would allow this stateside.
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