Ill certainly take 5W versus none with a big smile on my face - I know how much work has gone into this so far with a number of people giving up considerable time and resources.
- a couple of Watts ERP on 502kHz from SM6BHZ reached a city central location in far Eastern China on the Yellow Sea/Bohai Bay on WSPR/QRSS a year or so back so a lot of things are possible at this power level...
> From:
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[email protected]> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:30:27 +0100
> Subject: RE: LF: Re: 8kHz of spectrum
>
> Warren, all,
>
> 472-480kHz with 5W EIRP is the outcome of long and at moments very difficult negotiations.
> Indeed, my "wish list" would be 500-515kHz with 100W EIRP or so. But at the end I prefer to have 472-480kHz with 5 W EIRP in many countries than the current 501-504kHz is just a few countries.
> About 5W EIRP: that is some dB above the power I have been using for the past years. It is OK CW up to +2000km and up to 7000km in WSPR / QRSS3.
> The small frequency move should at worst be a minor inconvenience to any real ham.
>
> And: this is still a proposal for WRC 2015, so fingers crossed (or not ?) until then.
>
> 73, Rik ON7YD
>
> ________________________________________
> Van:
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> Verzonden: woensdag 2 november 2011 17:30
> Aan:
[email protected]> Onderwerp: Re: LF: Re: 8kHz of spectrum
>
> FYI the U.S. Experimental license WE2XGR covers 42kHz (460-480 and
> 493-515) with 1kW ERP and includes cw,ssb and all data modes.
> No interference problems to date.
>
> --
> 73 Warren K2ORS
> WD2XGJ
> WD2XSH/23
> WE2XEB/2
> WE2XGR/1
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Tracey Gardner
> <
[email protected]> wrote:
> > There are a mere 68 active NDBs in that segment.
> >
> > 73s Tracey
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Laurence KL7UK
> > To:
[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 3:24 PM
> > Subject: LF: 5 Whats?
> > During the meeting of the CEPT WRC-12 Conference Preparatory Group held in
> > Bucharest between November 1st-4th 2011 an European Common Proposal was
> > agreed. This ECP represents the block vote of 48 administrations and was
> > passed without dissent. It proposes an allocation to the amateur service
> > between 472-480 kHz on a secondary basis with a maximum power limit of 5W
> > eirp.
> > This ECP will now be forwarded to the ITU as a contribution from CEPT.
> > I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of those who participated
> > in the work of the working group that led to the adoption of this
> > proposal. Also thanks are due to those European Member Societies who
> > helped to influence their national administrations in this matter.
> > Now for WRC-12.
> > Colin, G3PSM
> > CEPT Co-ordinator for Agenda Item 1.23
> >
> >
> > Laurence KL7UK
> >
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