LF: Re: Re: WRC-12 Approves the New 472-479 kHz Amateur Radio Allocation

["Tracey Gardner" <tracey.gardner@talktalk.net>]

Hello Jim

 

I had a very brief listen last night and heard the following.

 

RP 474.878kHz     Malacky - Kuchyna,  Slovakia 1347km                         

PT 473.983kHz      Petrovskoye, Russia 2744km

BIA  475.034kHz   Rzeszow / Jasionka, Poland 1604km

TIG 475.965kHz    Kutaisi, Georgia 3392km

VIB 478.991kHz   Viterbo, Italy 1506km

USG 474.407kHz  Unidentified

 

73s Tracey G5VU

 

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: "James Moritz" <james.moritz@btopenworld.com>

To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>

Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 8:23 PM

Subject: LF: Re: WRC-12 Approves the New 472-479 kHz Amateur Radio Allocation

> Dear Mal, LF group,
> 
>> I just had a listen 
and you are correct in fact I doubt if there is enough
>> space for any 
radio amateur to communicate without interference from such
>> 
beacons.
> 
> So which beacons can you hear? On what 
frequencies?
> 
> Remember it is the beacons who will be the primary 
band users when the 
> 475kHz band comes into being, so the primary 
concern will be us amateurs not 
> interfering with them, rather than the 
other way round.
> 
>> Next question who was the person or 
persons that recommended this part of
>> the MF spectrum for radio 
amateur use ??
> 
> It is more a matter of amateurs struggling to 
gain access to any part of 
> this frequency range - remember, these 
frequencies have been fully occupied 
> for nearly a century now. The 
incumbents are tenaciously defending their 
> spectrum "territory" even if 
they are not really using it for anything. 
> Getting allocated any 
segment of spectrum is a triumph that required a lot 
> of hard work by 
many national amateur societies on behalf of their members.
> 
> 
Cheers, Jim Moritz
> 73 de M0BMU 
> 
>