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Assuming this is legit that's a BFD for the ham community. 144-146Mhz is probably the most active band given the low cost of equipment and high utility due to
by vvanders 7y ago
Assuming this is legit that's a BFD for the ham community.
144-146Mhz is probably the most active band given the low cost of equipment and high utility due to not being dependent on the solar cycle.
- CydeWeys 7y agoSeriously. 2m is the bread-and-butter of local ham communication. It's used as widely as the 11m CB radio band, and for similar purposes. Back when I had a car I had a 70cm/2m dual-band magnetic antenna on my roof that I would use regularly, as do many others. It would also be insane to attempt to re-allocate this band for any other purpose, given how many millions of transmitters on this band already exist out there. The average car-mounted transceiver puts out 50 W. Many base stations run at hundreds of Watts, and are attached to quite excellent antennas (e.g. my parents have an 18 foot antenna on a mast at the top of their house, with a total base elevation of around 40 feet). Good luck taking over the band. None of these drones can put out a tiny fraction of the power that the existing users of the band are already emitting.