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eHam Forums => Licensing => Topic started by: VE3NNM on January 12, 2023, 07:03:12 PM

Title: 60M US Expansion ?
Post by: VE3NNM on January 12, 2023, 07:03:12 PM

I just finished spending 5 minutes monitoring a CW pileup on 5353 kHz (2023-01-13 around 0230z), I didn't copy the DX station but US stations I clearly monitored calling during that short time included N4PL, W1VC, N4RJ, KK9S, NQ8R and W3BGN. I heard several others but was unable to verify their callsigns multiple times as I was able to do with the stations listed above.

Last summer Canada received authorization to operate on 5351.5 to 5366.5 kHz in addition to the five fixed 60M frequencies so I'm assuming the US has now also issued the authorization but I can't find any reference to it on the ARRL web site, the 60M Wikipedia page or anywhere else. Does anyone have a link to the information?
Title: Re: 60M US Expansion ?
Post by: WA9AFM on January 12, 2023, 08:58:41 PM
US amateur are still only allocated the five channels.  Even if Canada expanded their allocation, that does not mean it applies to the US.  At this point, it would be a good job to restrict your operations to the five 60m channels.  If the US 60m allocation is expanded, it would be big news for the amateur radio community.
Title: Re: 60M US Expansion ?
Post by: VE3NNM on January 13, 2023, 02:14:31 AM
OK, well, that's interesting. Given the fact that they they were spread out a bit (not much, maybe 200 or 300 Hz) and operation on the five "channels" is fixed-frequency, I'm going to assume that they knew where they were operating dial-wise since they probably would've noticed that their readout wasn't ending in the usual decimal point for channels 1, 2, 4 & 5.

I'm not a DXer but I'm going to assume that operating out-of-band nullifies any credit for a contact so I'm not grasping what the point is of trying to make contact with the station if it doesn't count. ???
Title: Re: 60M US Expansion ?
Post by: WA3SKN on January 13, 2023, 03:45:50 PM
USA under FCC rules has only 5 channels to transmit on.  Other countries don't.
Just operate "split".  You transmit on your authorized frequencies, we transmit on ours.  Tune the receiver accordingly.

-Mike.