I believe (though I can't find the reference) that someone in France made an
informal enquiry - not via REF) about the equivalent of an NoV for 500. The
reply translated as "that part of the spectrum is not allocation to the amateur
service".
F5VLF
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On 10/12/2009 at 03:27 M0FMT wrote:
>FYI ??
>"There is opposition to this proposal, primarily from the maritime service
>via the International Maritime Organisation and this has led to France
>presenting a paper under agenda item 1.10 that suggests a use for the band
>495-505 kHz using datamodes. This was in response to papers from Canada
>and the UK that proposed a secondary amateur band between 493 and 510(515)
>kHz. There appears to be no commercial or technical reasoning behind this
>paper and it is suspected to be based on emotive grounds
>only. Nevertheless agenda item 1.23 still requires a lot more support if
>it is going to be successful."
>73 petefmt
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