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G6Tanuki · 14th Jun 2019, 2:00 pm

At my QTH, 2M is dead - largely due to terrain [forest in one direction, the chalk of the Ridgeway in the other] and even though I have my FT-2400 scanning the entire 2M band when I'm out in the car, it's rare for anything to break the squelch except random interference. I won't be bothering to fit VHF/UHF antennas to my next car.

My last 'serious' use of 2M was back in the early-1990s when AX25-based bulletin-boards and KA9Q TCP/IP was the big thing on 144.650MHz that was, however, at a QTH that was not so VHF-hostile.

France would, I think, have a bit of a struggle getting the ITU to accede to a reclassification of 2M as an "aviation primary" allocation!

14th Jun 2019, 2:00 pm	#13
G6Tanuki Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Wiltshire, UK. Posts: 13,998	Re: Save our 2 Metre Band. At my QTH, 2M is dead - largely due to terrain [forest in one direction, the chalk of the Ridgeway in the other] and even though I have my FT-2400 scanning the entire 2M band when I'm out in the car, it's rare for anything to break the squelch except random interference. I won't be bothering to fit VHF/UHF antennas to my next car. My last 'serious' use of 2M was back in the early-1990s when AX25-based bulletin-boards and KA9Q TCP/IP was the big thing on 144.650MHz that was, however, at a QTH that was not so VHF-hostile. France would, I think, have a bit of a struggle getting the ITU to accede to a reclassification of 2M as an "aviation primary" allocation!