Welcome to Tropical band

To most people the phrase "tropical bands" bring a pretty clear picture to mind - a bunch of shirtless guys playing calypso music. But to experienced shortwave DXers those two little words express the most challenging and enjoyable part of the radio hobby. The phrase kindles memories of a DXer's best catches and favorite QSLs, of exotic stations, music and of early morning listening sessions. (Don Moore)
I like the "Tropical band" name for new 60m allocation. (OK1RP)

Effective from 1st Jan 2017 please paper QSL via OM-bureau only.


Friday, January 6, 2017

HB - Switzerland on 60m band


Hello,

Swiss got WRC-15 band preliminary allocation on January 1st 2017.
As usual the 15W EIRP only...

The list of active station is here:
HB9AMO, HB9DAX, HB9ODI, HB9OQ, HB9TPT, HB9FAX, HB9HFN, HB9CVQ, HB9DCO and many others.

Unfortunately most of them is running JT65 so making the CW QSO with HB9 is still not as easy as it sounds to be...


73 - Petr, OK1RP
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  1. Ham ManJanuary 6, 2017 at 7:02 AM

    The Problem with 60 meters is that it is channelized. It turns the band into another CB radio.. It attracts the cb'r crowd that thinks that they are doing something when you have a band that forces everyone onto certain frequency's - channels. I choose not to play 60 meters for that very reason.

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  2. Petr, OK1RPJanuary 6, 2017 at 7:42 AM

    Hello. Thank you for comment. Yes I understand and agree it is annoying and limiting the channelization but if I am right the WRC-15 band allocation is 15kHz VFO based range available so in your case you can use whole 15kHz band...
    Best regards,
    Petr

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