USA's Federal Communications Commission
released a REPORT AND ORDER on November 18, 2011
with new 5MHz rules for the Amateur Radio Service.
Effective date: 30 days after publication in the Federal Register.
The FCC adopted the use of the name "60 meter band",
to refer to 5MHz amateur radio in the frequency
range 5330.5-5406.4 kHz, but USA hams are still only
allowed to transmit on 5 specific channels in the band.
The FCC changed the rules to allow:
Phone (Upper Sideband), RTTY, Data, and CW;
with specific limitations on the use of these modes.
Amateur radio is a "secondary user" in this band, and
must not cause harmful interference to other services!
Amateur Radio Service must accept interference from
other primary services and other nations services.
Operators transmitting data or RTTY must exercise care
to limit the length of transmission so as to avoid
causing harmful interference to US Government stations.
New 60 meter band 5MHz Channel List:
General, Advanced, or Amateur Extra Class license only.
Suppressed
Carrier
VFO Dial freq
5330.5 kHz USB (center of channel = 5332.0)
5346.5 kHz USB (center of channel = 5348.0)
5357.0 kHz USB (center of channel = 5358.5) New!
5371.5 kHz USB (center of channel = 5373.0)
5403.5 kHz USB (center of channel = 5405.0)
Note: FCC deleted the channel at 5366.5 USB (center=5368.0)
and "replaced" it with channel 5357.0 kHz USB (center=5358.5)
The maximum allowed power level is now 100Watts PEP (ERP)
effective radiated power referenced to a dipole.
If another type of antenna is used, the station licensee
must maintain a record of either the antenna manufacturer's
data on the antenna gain or calculations of the antenna gain.
Upper SideBand Phone, Data, or RTTY transmissions
may use dial (VFO) USB suppressed carrier frequency
at 1.5kHz below the center of the channel.
Transmissions must not exceed the 2.8kHz bandwidth channel.
RTTY modes such as PSK31 must not exceed 60Hz necessary
bandwidth. Data modes must not exceed 2.8kHz bandwidth.
CW bandwidth must not exceed 150Hz bandwidth and the CW
frequency should be at the center of the channel.
Data stations operating under section ยง 97.221
automatically controlled digital station, are not
allowed on these 5MHz channels.
Jack Hartley
K4WSB / VP2MSB
DXCC Honor Roll
QCWA OOTC
"Celebrating over 1/2 century in Ham Radio"
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