Monday, April 01, 2013

New bands

While some people over here were applying for access on the 5Mhz band, our telecoms regulator "ANACOM" on a bold move just gave us access to another 8 bands in the HF spectrum.



I think this is a shift from the classic deny first, allow latter paradigm that is so classic across all sectors of society.

The new bands in Portugal are as follow:

455 Khz
600 Khz
4 Mhz
8.865 Mhz
9 Mhz
10.245Mhz
10.7 Mhz
21.4 Mhz

All modes are allowed. This is of course on a non interference basis, hams are primary users.
Beacons are welcome using low bandwidth modes.

Frequency shift is allowed to a maximum of 15Khz deviation



Output power is not regulated yet but probably will be around a maximum of 17dbm to keep things even with the other allowed bands.


Let's hope this new bands get adopted all over the world!

4 comments:

PE4BAS, Bas said...

Great Ricardo, that will be easy for homemade trx. Crystals with those frequncies are cheap. Happy april fool's day ;-). 73, Bas

Ricardo - CT2GQV said...

Hello Bas,
Most transceivers already accept the new bands from factory! :)
73 de Ricardo, CT2GQV

Sebastian said...

When I first read the article I totally missed the date. Although obviously bogus it took me a moment to get why you wrote it :)Very good April fool's article.

Ricardo - CT2GQV said...

Hello Sebastian,
Thank you for your comment. I almost foul someone! Maybe next year :)