IPingUPing
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| 6 Meter Military Restrictions?
During my reading for my technician license, I seem to recall that there may be a restriction operating on 6 meters near a military installation. Since I am am about a half mile from the end of the runway of the local Air Base, it tickled my memory that I needed to be careful if I wanted to operate in this band.
I checked part 97.303 and could find some other restrictions, but nothing about 6 meters. Of course, I can't find the original reference, and the Google does nothing.
Would anyone mind pointing me in the right direction? Plenty of other frequencies to operate on I know, but I'd like to try a taste of everything.
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tobicat
join:2005-04-18
Tombstone, AZ
| I really do not know of any restriction for 6 meters. I guess there could be. I don't think the US Air force would be likely to use them. The Army has considerable tactical radios that operate right thru the whole band. I would think that as long as you do not deliberately try to talk over or to any military station that you might hear you would be good to go.
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GeekNJ
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Waldwick, NJ | reply to IPingUPing
I don't recall any restrictions either other then antenna height by airports that would be relevant. |
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TROLL131313
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Here is a PDF of the US HamBands chart from the ARRL.
»www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regula···olor.pdf
It gives a breakdown of the bands allowed for your license level and the modes you can use. |
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tobicat
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Tombstone, AZ
| That chart only gives the bands. You definitely do have restrictions specially on 220,440 and 902. 902 is specifically prohibited in parts of Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, and Wyoming.
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IPingUPing
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| said by tobicat  : You definitely do have restrictions specially on 220,440 and 902. 902 is specifically prohibited in parts of Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, and Wyoming. Found all those in the FCC regs. Based on that, so far I am clear then, both by frequency choice and location. Thanks to everyone for the thoughts so far. |
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n1zuk
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I know that in many countries (mostly European) do not have amateur allocations, due to television and military using frequencies in/near the 6M band. But there aren't any restrictions in the US that I'm aware of.
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I can't recall any restrictions concerning the US military and 6m.
70cm IS a shared allocation however, and there issues with causing interference to the USAF 'PAVE PAWS' early warning radar systems.
I am about the same distance from Fort Dix, NJ as I am from Dover AFB, DE, and do occasionally get some rather annoying interference on 70cm from those locations, particularly from Dover AFB.
There, the US Military is the Primary User, with Amateur Radio being Secondary, so it's usually a good time to QSY to 2m when the government is messing with THEIR 70cm equipment.
Fortunately, they don't seem to use 70cm on a continuous basis, so it remains mostly interference free for ham use, probably 95% of the time.
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