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5th Dec 2014, 11:34 am | #1 |
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OFCOM removes need for 5MHz NoVs.
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/bin...io_Licence.pdf
Seems the need for a 5MHz NoV is going away for 'full' licence-holders. Not that getting one was an onerious task anyway... |
5th Dec 2014, 12:33 pm | #2 |
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Re: OFCOM removes need for 5MHz NoVs.
Sounds very positive anyway.Think this is what the RSGB was after.
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5th Dec 2014, 12:40 pm | #3 |
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Re: OFCOM removes need for 5MHz NoVs.
I hope it doesn't cause the 5MHz allocations to become overwhelmed; they're a nice refuge from the invariable weekend bellow of "CQ CONTEST!"
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5th Dec 2014, 1:26 pm | #4 |
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Re: OFCOM removes need for 5MHz NoVs.
Indeed.
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5th Dec 2014, 3:36 pm | #5 | |
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Re: OFCOM removes need for 5MHz NoVs.
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5 MHz is a great band but, as you say, the ease of getting an NOV granted means that anyone who wanted to get on the band could do so by return of e-mail. So, this change to not needing an NOV is unlikely to open the floodgates. Let's hope for a 200kHz allocation next year at WRC2015! 73 Roger/G3VKM |
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5th Dec 2014, 5:31 pm | #6 | |
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Re: OFCOM removes need for 5MHz NoVs.
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How long that will remain the case is another matter. Enjoy it whilst you can! I wish official organisations were consistent in their use of abbreviations. I just read that document and spent about ten minutes thoroughly confused, until I realised that "RSL" was being used to mean "Regional Secondary Locator" instead of Ofcom's usual term "Restricted Service Licence". |
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5th Dec 2014, 6:31 pm | #7 | |
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Re: OFCOM removes need for 5MHz NoVs.
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The lack of 'off-the-shelf' transceivers and commercially-manufactured antennas does present a useful degree of discouragement to the less-than-wholly-motivated and technically-challenged types. Long may it continue. Last edited by Brian R Pateman; 5th Dec 2014 at 6:38 pm. Reason: Quote fixed. |
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5th Dec 2014, 7:28 pm | #8 |
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Re: OFCOM removes need for 5MHz NoVs.
Other than Clansmans, what are people using on 5MHz?
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5th Dec 2014, 7:49 pm | #9 |
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Re: OFCOM removes need for 5MHz NoVs.
As well as my PRC320 I have a Yaesu FT897D that works on 5MHz, and a Redifon 6288R ATU that will match anything to anything.
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5th Dec 2014, 8:55 pm | #10 |
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Re: OFCOM removes need for 5MHz NoVs.
Icom 746 transceiver, broadbanded by myself when my eyesight was better! On 5317 AM, occasionally a Collins TCS-9 TX and TCS-12 RX. Could use my WS 62 but conditions need to be good for the couple of watts it produces.
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5th Dec 2014, 10:46 pm | #11 |
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Re: OFCOM removes need for 5MHz NoVs.
I use a throttled-back modified LG300 driven by a DDSS plus EF91-5763 exciter modulated by a pair of 807s in AB2 - all very 1950s. - see previous VMARS Signal edition for details - Peter
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6th Dec 2014, 5:02 am | #12 |
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Re: OFCOM removes need for 5MHz NoVs.
I don't quite know why, but I had the impression that the band was not "AM friendly" - obviously not so!
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6th Dec 2014, 8:33 am | #13 |
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Re: OFCOM removes need for 5MHz NoVs.
There's a bandlet around 5317 kHz that has become the default AM centre of activity but there's no official AM portion of the band. When the present bandlets were announced there were some objections to AM operation voiced on the Yahoo "ukfivemegs" forum but things seemed to have settled down. Bandwidth on all modes is limited to 6kHz so some AMers monitor themselves on the Hack Green SDR, to ensure their b/w is in limits.
Recently however, 5317 has been unusable due to a powerful and quite broad data signal, so amateur AM activity has been low. |
6th Dec 2014, 5:16 pm | #14 |
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6th Dec 2014, 9:16 pm | #15 |
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Re: OFCOM removes need for 5MHz NoVs.
The 5MHz bandlets are not allowed for 'mobile' operation - nevertheless I have cunning plans involving a Canadian 'Spilsbury STA-270' antenna http://home.cogeco.ca/~rodemi/images...%20Antenna.jpg and a parked Land-Rover.
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7th Dec 2014, 12:17 pm | #16 |
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Re: OFCOM removes need for 5MHz NoVs.
Yes that's very good news. The paraset and other spy radios will work really well on 5 megs. I've got an ICOM IC-718 and by taking out D53 - D54 - D55 it will work on 5 megs. That comes with no guarantees though HI.
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7th Dec 2014, 4:45 pm | #17 |
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Re: OFCOM removes need for 5MHz NoVs.
I have converted my !C746 with a simple mod to cover the band.I hope to operate a.m. with one or two of my old pieces of military gear in the future,One,of course,needs to ensure they are within band limits with minimal drift.
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