[50mhz] 6 Meter Packet -- Any??

[Ray Brown]

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From: Christopher (Chris) W. Boone <Cboone@Earthlink.net>

> The ARRL "bandplan" if you can call it that, calls for packet
> on 50.62 MHz....1200baud FM....below 50.1, CW is the only emission
> allowed...true FSK would be better above 50.1 than FM packet since
> SN ratios and weak signal would be better in the SSB/FSK mode..
> PSK is using 50.29 quite a bit.....and there may be some other
> packet channels in use on 6 (I have heard of 51.7? being used...
> but that could cause problems to rptr inputs across the country...
> bad idea if they are)....Alas, there IS no national bandplan on 6
> (or any other band for that matter except maybe the 10FM rptr subband)
> THe ARRL one is used in the LEAST amount of the country....the WWARA
> plan and the old 1MHz rptr offset bandplan hold the rest of the
> nation.....and packet was hardly intergrated in the old plan..
> it IS in the 1.7 Mhz plan (even some duplex channels!)

  I was trying to find what the SEDAN organization uses for their 6m backbone packet operation. I want to say that it's
51.110 @ 9600 Baud. I know that there's some California packet around 51.140 or so.

                _Ray_        KB0STN