I just worked Lars LA2OKA on 5mHz and he tells me that amateurs in Norway can use the band, which was previously restricted to club stations only. He was having great fun working lots of new countries on the band. G, GW, GM, EI, OK etc.
Anyone know if /P operation is permissible? If so are any LA stations planning on doing 5Mhz from summits?
In reply to GW7AAV:
Hi Steve
I’m not quite sure that Lars is allowed to make QSOs on 5MHz yet because as far as I know there has not been released an official band plan. I could be wrong about this. I have e-mailed the Norwegian HF Traffic Manager and asked him to clarify.
In reply to MM0XXP:
That is not the band plan for Norway but the Regulations for Amateur Radio License with frequency allocations. What I miss is the band plan that tells me where to work cw and where to work ssb and what channels to use like this one for 70MHz: http://nrrl.no/Lib/download.asp?fn=News/Documents/373986389_70MHzBandplan.pdf
Edit: I have talked to the Norwegian HF Traffic Manager one the phone and he has not been able to study the new regulations yet.
Information I recieved from a Norwegian station I heard earlier today is that as of 5th November Norwegian amateurs can use 5260KHz to 5410KHz with a maximum output power of 100 Watts.
I do not know if a special permit is required, or whether it is open to all licensed amateurs.
The Norwegian authorities have not yet decided whether to allocate channels as in the UK, or whether to recommend USB or LSB for voice communications.
If you are a Norwegian amateur, please check with your authorities before transmitting.
It doesn’t matter what the regulations are, what’s needed are decent antennas for LA stations! There was an LA2 calling CQ non-stop through a three way S2S I was having with Jack GM4COX/p and Robin GM7PKT/p on FE this afternoon. By the time I QSY’d to 40m he was 58 with me. Could he really not hear us.
I do not know if a special permit is required, or whether it is open to all licensed amateurs.
Speaking to Per LA1TNA today I was informed that the band allocation was to all Norwegian Amateurs (no permit required) and is un-channelised with no restrictions on mode. Allocation is on a secondary basis and has no time limit like the UKs NoV.
That is what I wanted to hear :0) The LA stations I have heard so far seem as strong as most UK stations, so it could be very good for SOTA.
Lets hope there is something in print so we can all be sure what the legality is from a Norwegian perspective. Hopefully the UK will follow suit with a permanent allocation when the present NoV runs out.
I heard an LA4 in QSO with GA4WMM, Stuart this afternoon at 15.10-ish and the norwegian was 55 here , Stuart 58. Then shortly thereafter came another LA in QSO with another scottish station. Both about the same signals as the ones before.