[Heathkit] Not Heathkit - Glenn's petition 4M

[Ron Youvan]

> Everyone catch to petition Glenn has presented the FCC on opening up a 4M
> band, 70Mhz?  Sounds good to me.  Most all channel -5- TV stations are gone
> around here.  Suppose it has a chance???

"The 4 meter (70.000 MHz to 70.500 MHz) amateur radio band has been authorized in a 
growing number of European and African nations and establishing such privileges for 
amateur radio operators in the United States and other areas over which the Commission has 
jurisdiction would be of great benefit to those operators residing in such areas. The 
recent migration of broadcast television stations to primarily the UHF frequencies 
basically eliminates any probable interference to television channels 4 or 5 which 
otherwise might have occurred because the 4-meter band is located on frequencies that were 
allocated to television channel 4. Since the 4-meter amateur radio and does not fall in 
the 72.0 MHz to 76.0 MHz segment which is allocated to Operational Fixed and various 
mobile services there would be no potential co-channel or adjacent channel interference.
"
-- 
    Ron  KA4INM - I'm proud to be Chuck's pop!