I'm surprised no one's gone for the 220MHz band yet. It's very underutilized by hams.
I'm surprised no one's gone for the 220MHz band yet. It's very underutilized by hams.
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They already took half of it years ago.Originally Posted by KJ6BSO
It was sold to UPS, I think. To date, they never have used it.
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After all their lobbying (and "incentives"... no, they wouldn't BRIBE anyone on the FCC, would they?), when UPS wrested 220 - 222 MHz away from the Amateur Service, they decided that the application they had planned to use wouldn't work.
The band has since been reallocated for other commercial users. Give the band back to the hams? Perish the thought!
But, Don Pardo has your parting gift, a set of data channels to use around 219 MHz!
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420 to 440MHz is being used by both the military and CBP for OTH RADAR.
http://www.capelinks.com/cape-cod/ma...n-at-otis-afb/
http://www.acc.af.mil/library/factsh...et.asp?id=2359
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