[amsat-bb] Re: 220 MHz Radios and Region 2 Hams - 219 to 220 MHzdata only?

[John B. Stephensen]

The 219-220 Hz band was created by the FCC to compensate for the loss of 
220-222 MHz.  It can only be used for fixed packet radio links (see 97.303 
(e)) and not for normal QSOs.

73,

John
KD6OZH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tyler Harpster" <tyler881 at comcast.net>
To: "James Duffey" <JamesDuffey at comcast.net>; "G8IFF/KC8NHF" 
<nigel at ngunn.net>
Cc: "AMSAT" <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 17:58 UTC
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: 220 MHz Radios and Region 2 Hams - 219 to 220 
MHzdata only?


> So what is this rumored spectrum from 219 to 220 that I see every once in 
> a
> while?  I think I saw that it's for data link use only?    Does anyone use
> that 1 MHz worth of spectrum?
>
> Tyler
> KM3G
>
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