Uk 60m bandplan?

Hi.
I’m planing on activating la/hl-023 tomorrow. And i would like to try and reach some of you UK guys on 60m.

So how is the UK bandplan for 60m. What frequencies would you recommend?

Hope to catch you on the air tomorrow.
73
de LA4TTA

Hi Erlend

This is probably the link you need:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wadei/140218_UK_60m_Band_Utilization.pdf

If you can call on 5.3985 Mhz USB, I’m sure you will get a reply if propagation is working.

73 Marc G0AZS

Hei Erlend
You should as mention before try 5.398,5 USB. This is where most activity goes on.

73 and good luck

Aage, LA1ENA

Hello Erland,

Try 5403.5 Mhz as it is the frequency that many countries have outside Region 1. See note in the link below:

http://rsgb.org/main/operating/band-plans/hf/5mhz/

Last year it was well populated by NA stations so you might get lucky. It is also regarded as the favoured frequency for calling for long distance stations but quite often it is occupied by chats so see what happens.
Good luck in any event.
Cheers
Mike

Plus the second choice 5.4035. I’ll be listening!

Brian

All my SOTA activations on 60m have been between 5.260 and 5.261.
You didn’t mention mode, so if you’re working CW, that’s where you’ll find the contacts :slight_smile:

73
Pete

Thanks for the frequency suggestions, I will try them both. Mode will be ssb as I’m still an no code ham. (For now)

Hope to meet you all on the air tomorrow morning.

Hello Erland,
There a few alerts for 60M tomorrow besides yours so hopefully you should get some SSB S2S as well.
There quite a lot of UK stations who have good 60M set ups so it should work for you but you have indicated other bands so all will be well.
Night night
Mike

Thanks to all of you who where listening for me. I actually heard 3 of you calling me, loud and clear, but i guess you didn’t hear me. Not even when I turned the effect up to 100w.

Fortunately I managed to reach three of you on an crowded 40m band and two ea stations. Bearly copying me on 20.

So the question is. Where the conditions that bad, or my antenna?

I think i will invest the time to build an dipole for 60 as and 40m.

Hello Erlend, I did listen out for you but did not call as when I heard you there was too much noise and qsb. Sol numbers were very bad this morning and did not improve much this afternoon. Good luck next time.

Cheers
Mike

What antenna were you using Erlend?

I where using two wires, approximately 30m long. One going up about 10-11meters and down to about 2m of the ground. Sort of an one wire inverted v. And the other one running underneath some what elevated from the ground. And an antenna coupler of course.

MIke, have you read the new licence wording as regards 60 Metres (5 MHz) - Ofcom appear to be referring to it as one frequency band rather than a set of “chunks” as shown in the table linked to on the RSGB website. Is the UK, the first entity to have a “normal” complete band rather than specific frequency channels on 60m?

73 Ed (UK call G8GLM).

Hi Erland,

Sorry we didn’t make contact today. Both me & Ken GM0AXY heard you calling on 60m but it appeared you could not hear us.

Regarding your antenna, With the the length of wire you have available I would recommend a proper inverted V dipole configuration with the feedpoint at the top of your pole fed with coax, RG58 is fine at HF.

If each wire was 30m long you would have a full wavelength on 60m, which your tuner would see as an end fed half wave, or voltage fed antenna. Maybe your tuner (automatic?) was struggling to match your feedpoint impedance, which could be why we heard your initial calls but not your replies.

I would recommend a simple link dipole antenna, where you would have a resonant half wave dipole for the bands you wish to use, with simple links to connect or disconnect for the particular band you wish to use.

There are numerous good designs of link dipole available on the web but if you would like more info let me know.

Well done in any case & thanks for trying 60m :smile:

Thanks & best 73,

Mark G0VOF

Hello Ed,
No it is a set of ‘chunks’ - forget what Ofcom says. Here are a sample of the chunks for Region1 as seen on the Flex :sunglasses:

Best wishes.
Mike

It’s not continuous Ed, some ‘channels’ are wider than others though.

See the RSGB bandplan at https://www.thersgb.org/services/bandplans/#9

Thanks Mike, Interesting that the new wording of the revised licence does not cover this - perhaps it’s already covered elsewhere, I have only read the planned changed paragraphs. Don’t even have 60m over here in Germany, so it would only affect me when visiting my family in the UK.

73 Ed.

Norwegian radio amateurs have access to 5260-5410 kHz; see this link for their suggested bandplan,
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/november2009/norwegian_60m_bandplan.htm
I don’t know of any other country with full access, yet?? Anyone know different?
73 de GM0AXY aka LA6EF

I already have an linked dipole, but it’s just for 12-20m. I might have to add a couple of bands to it. ;-).

It is, in my experience, easier to deploy the dipole than the end fed wire antenna. There ain’t much trees on most of the Mountain tops here in the western parts of Norway so I have to bring an pole anyway. And using an dipole as guys is easier than an long wire.

Should tried 80m that would have been interesting.
As not allowed on 60m under me currant licence.

Karl