Re: LF: More on 500 kHz

["John RABSON" <john.rabson@wanadoo.fr>]

On 16/09/2006 at 13:09 Wolf DL4YHF wrote:

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>BTW in DL it took over a decade until 6 meters became an (almost)
>"normal" amateur radio band just a few weeks ago (!) - it doesn't
>require a special license now, but we must still inform the authorities
>before we start using it.
When I last checked the regulations for France:

(i) we could not use 6m mobile, and the maximum permitted ERP depended on which 
department (and sometimes commune) you lived in.  In some areas it was not 
available at all

(ii) it seems that we may not get the extra hundred kilohertz on 40 metres for 
a while.

73
John F5VLF/G3PAI