QRP Club
Ham Radio Activity => QRP => Topic started by: PA1FJ on December 15, 2015, 16:02:04 UTC
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In the Netherlands we have now 5 MHz band from 5.350 - 5.450 MHz, a perfect QRP band!
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I must give the band a try Fred. Will have to see if I can get any of my existing antennas to radiate a Watt or two as no space left for yet another antenna!
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Just had my first 5MHz QSO with G4HMC 2x QRP on 5.262.
I found that I could tune my HF2v by shorting most of the 80m loading coil. Works a treat!!
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Antenna and TRX are not a problem here. It´s easy to tune my 2 x 13.5 m doublet but here in DL 60m is not allowed yet :(
We will got a small 15 kc part in the next future but i think the german BNetzA not working between Xmas and the new year ;D ;D
My Icom is ready to transmit an i´m still waiting ;) ;)
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Hello all,
Here is what we have in Canada:
Centre Frequency Frequency (USB) Channel Designation
5332.0 Khz 5330.5 kHz Channel 1
5348.0 kHz 5346.5 kHz Channel 2
5358.5 kHz 5357.0 kHz Channel 3
5373.0 kHz 5371.5 kHz Channel 4
5405.0 kHz 5403.5 kHz Channel 5
For now, that is all we have here in Canada.
And many much more informations in the following link:
http://www.hflink.com/5mhz/index.html#USA (http://www.hflink.com/5mhz/index.html#USA)
Good reading
72, Michel
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Bad regulations worldwide .... The Netherlands have 100 kc´s without channel regulations, we will have (in the next future) 15 kc´s without a channel regulation and some other countries have 5 channels like Canada and the USA ....
Not a problem to come togehther but it´s split work what we have to do ..... Hope in a near future this will be regulated to a hamband without channels .... ;) ;)
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Yes Juergen - very confusing indeed. I've heard some stations operating outside the 'channels' allocated to their countries and there do not seem to be any separate allocations for CW and SSB.
All a bit of a mess :-)
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I hung up a short coil loaded dipole this evening, still have to tune it because resonance is at 5250 which is about 100 kHz to low. The dipole is only 10 meters long, I have limited space currently. I hear mostly SSB stations from the UK and one beacon, HG7BHB at 5352.5.
Anyone have a clue where QRP activity is located on this band?
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Hi Joop!
The UK QRP QRG is 5262.0 kHz.
Good Luck!
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Thanks Dave,
that's outside the Dutch band, 5350-5450. To bad. Well, at least I can try and listen there. ;)
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5373.0 +/- Might be worth listening to Joop. Not a specific QRP QRG but there is activity.
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I read that starting Jan 1st 2017 a new segment (5351.5 - 5366.5) will be allocated for amateur radio use worldwide. Maximum power 15 Watts ERP. Secondary status. Possibly CW and digital modes only due to the small bandwidth.
See the ARRL site: http://www.arrl.org/news/view/world-radiocommunication-conference-approves-global-60-meter-allocation (http://www.arrl.org/news/view/world-radiocommunication-conference-approves-global-60-meter-allocation)
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The new radio frequency of 4 U / M 2016 came into force on Friday, 09.12.2016. At the same time the new 5 MHz band opened for all Finnish ham radio frequencies between 5351.5 kHz and 5366.5 kHz. Maximum power 15 W EIRP.
so far a lot of activity on JT65 and JT9 modes. Good band for QRP -operations.
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