[Elecraft] US 60 Meter Band Changes Approved by FCC - CW Issues

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

The stated objective for permission to use the 60-meter channels was not to
acquire more spectrum for casual operating. It was to provide communications
frequencies between 80 and 40 meters needed by the various emergency nets,
particularly the hurricane nets in the southeast, who often found the skip
too long on 40 and too short on 80. 

Of course casual operation is perfectly okay as long as the channel isn't
being used by an emergency net or the primary holder of the allocation. 

Ron AC7AC


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

Me thinks the ARRL AND the FCC made a mistake when it originally allocated
the
channelized 60m Amateure band.  It would have been smarter to allocate a
continuous band as Mike suggests.  It didn't have to be 60m.  It could have
been
a continuous segment of the old 11m band.

73,
Tom
Amateur Radio Operator N5GE
ARRL Lifetime Member
QCWA Lifetime Member