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A Lemmy Community to share links about and for amateur (ham) radio to advance the technology, and promote communication and international goodwill. This community IS NOT for CB, GMRS, MURS, FRS, etc topics unless they are related to ham radio in some way.

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If asking questions about regulations, please include your country because we recognize that, while the hobby is international, regulations often aren't.

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Another question por favor (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It seems the band plans are absolutely packed with bands for repeaters, satellites, cw, ssb, slow scan tv, etc. As a new ham is there a easy diagram of the frequency spectrum of what I CAN use just for simple beginner voice transmissions?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Good info, I was not aware it was a state thing. So hf bands are federal band plans and vhf-uhf are state band plans? Is that correct?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

The FCC sets what parts of the bands can be used for phone and what's CW or data only. Apart from that everything is basically a gentleman's agreement. Since HF can go a long ways, there's no point making local band plans for it. VHF and up is shorter range and some areas have different needs than others. There are frequency coordinators that handle the band plans and repeater pair assignments. Some states have more than one frequency coordinator for different parts of the state. Some frequency coordinators only handle repeater pairs and don't publish a band plan.