[MRCA] FW: The New 60 Meter Allocation will Become Available on February 13th

[mstangelo at comcast.net]

I checked the Code of Federal Regulations this morning and it still shows the old 60 Meter assignments

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-97#p-97.303(h)

The ARRL website does not have any news on the update.

Mike N2MS


> On 01/13/2026 7:05 PM EST W2HX <w2hx at w2hx.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Just passing this along.
> 
> 73 Eugene W2HX/4
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> From:OldFriendsNet at groups.io <OldFriendsNet at groups.io> On Behalf OfCharlie W4MEC via groups.io
>  Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2026 4:57 PM
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>  Subject: [OldFriendsNet] The New 60 Meter Allocation will Become Available on February 13th
> 
> The new 60-meter band will become available on Feb. 13. At that time,
>  all amateur operations using 2.8 kHz or less bandwidth are authorized
>  general class and higher licensees on a secondary basis between 5351.5
>  – 5366.5 kHz. Simultaneously, the old channel centered on 5358.5 kHz
>  ceases and power anywhere within this range must be limited to 9.15
>  watts ERP.
>  
>  Earlier detailed ARRL article: https://tinyurl.com/mt8p8jpa 
>  
>  Summary of the rules as amended effective Feb. 13:
>  
>  On the frequencies 5.332, 5.348, 5.373, and 5.405 MHz, radiated power is
>  limited to no more than 100 W ERP. 
>  
>  In the new 5.3515-5.3665 MHz band, radiated power is limited to no more
>  than 9.15 W ERP. For the purpose of computing ERP, the transmitter PEP
>  is multiplied by the antenna gain relative to a half-wave dipole
>  antenna. A half-wave dipole antenna is presumed to have a gain of 1 (0
>  dBd). Amateurs using other antennas must maintain in their station
>  records either the antenna manufacturer's data on the antenna gain or
>  calculations of the antenna gain.
>  
>  For all 60 m transmissions, emission bandwidth is limited to 2.8 kHz or
>  less and Amateurs must not cause harmful interference to, and must
>  accept interference from, stations authorized by: the United States
>  (NTIA and FCC) and other nations in the fixed service; and all other
>  nations in the mobile except aeronautical mobile service. Data or RTTY
>  emissions in particular must be limited in transmission length so as not
>  to cause harmful interference.
>  
>  As before, operators using RTTY and digital modes must be familiar with
>  offsets in order to stay within the authorized frequencies. There are
>  many explanations of these requirements in the amateur literature. 
>  
>  The www.arrl.org (http://www.arrl.org) website will soon be updated with the new 60-meter band
>  information.
>  
>  NOTE: Remember that we are secondary users of this band. When we were
>  originally given channels in this band, we were limited to 50 watts PEP.
>  Afterwards, our power level was increased to 100 watts PEP because we
>  were "good neighbors". We hope that this will happen once again.
>  
>  Enjoy our new privileges!
>  
>  '73 de 
>  
>  Jim N2ZZ
>  Roanoke Division Director 
>  
>  and 
>  
>  Bill N2COP
>  Roanoke Division Vice Director
>  
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