[BR BandPlan] Re: Proposed 70cm packet frequencies

[Paul Hopkins]

The lower frequencies as proposed by the ARRL over lap with ATV/cable channel 58.  I was just looking at the 5 freq between 440.975-441.075.  There could be overlap with ATV/cable channel 60.  Not sure how many people use video channel 4/cable 60. Lately it seems those doing video are using 900MHz or 2.4G.  There was a proposal a few years ago to use 445.925 as a national packet freq. It doesn't look like it went anywhere.  Another option would be use a couple simplex channels between 446.015-446.485

If possible, it would be nice to have a couple frequencies that follow the ARRL plan. I'm open to what works for the area.

Paul


>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Ian Kluft <ikluft at thunder.sbay.org>
>  Subject: Re: Proposed 70cm packet frequencies
>  Sent: Sep 01 '07 18:59
>  
>  I should have sent this to the list address so we'll get it in the list
>  archives.
>  
>  ----- Forwarded message from Ian Kluft <ikluft at thunder.sbay.org> -----
>  Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 19:55:37 -0700
>  From: Ian Kluft <ikluft at thunder.sbay.org>
>  To: Paul Hopkins <paul at maxentropy.net>
>  Cc: blackrock-radio at thunder.net
>  Subject: Re: Proposed 70cm packet frequencies
>  
>  On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 03:00:57PM -0800, Paul Hopkins wrote:
>  > I've been looking at 70cm band plans for recommended packet frequencies for the beelineGPS transmitters.  The ARRL recommends the following packet radio frequencies.
>  >
>  > 1) 100-kHz bandwidth channels
>  > 430.05  430.35  430.65
>  > 430.15  430.45  430.85
>  > 430.25  430.55  430.95
>  >
>  > 2) 25kHz bandwidth channels
>  > 431.025  441.000  441.050
>  > 440.975  441.025  441.075
>  >
>  > I would like to propose for the Black Rock band plan that the frequencies
>  > 440.975, 441.000, 441.025, 441.050 441.075 be adopted for packet radio. I'd like to use 441.000 for the digipeater.
>  >
>  > I seems that many BeelineGPS users use the default 433.92 for their transmitters.  By having other frequencies alloted would allow fliers to spread out.
>  >
>  > Let me know what you think.
>  
>  Hi Paul.  Some of the frequencies overlap with Channel 58 ATV (centered on
>  431.750, and 4MHz wide).  There aren't many ATV frequencies on Cable TV
>  channels so we should expect those to be in perpetual demand for ATV.  Can
>  we pick different frequencies?  Or are people already using these?
>  
>  Actually, it's the first update to the Black Rock band plan in a couple
>  years.  We ought to make this easier to do.
>  
>  I moved the web page to the Stratofox public wiki
>     http://www.stratofox.org/twiki/bin/view/BlackRock/AmateurRadioBandPlan
>  
>  I moved the old blackrock-radio address on thunder.net (which forwarded
>  to Sean Lynch KG6CVV, Ed Hackett W7EDH and me.  After this I'll move the
>  three of us to the new mail list br-bandplan at stratofox.org.
>     http://www.stratofox.org/mailman/listinfo/br-bandplan
>  
>  Paul - you're welcome to join the list.
>  
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