ARRL Says Support Broad for 5 MHz Allocation for Amateur Radio
ARRL, representing amateur radio operators, said there's unanimous support in the FCC record for its petition asking the agency to allocate 5351.5-5366.5 kHz to the amateur radio service on a secondary basis. The 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference agreed to a…
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change of the international table of allocations to reflect the use of the spectrum by amateur radio operators, ARRL said in a January petition (see 1701130054), on which the FCC sought comment. “There are as of this writing just over 60 comments filed in response to ARRL’s Petition,” the group said in a filing posted Monday in RM-11785. “All of them were filed by individual Amateur Radio licensees. They all support an allocation to the Amateur Service of a contiguous band in the vicinity of 5 megahertz. They are all in agreement with ARRL that a contiguous band in the vicinity of 5 MHz will assist in conducting emergency and disaster relief communications in the United States; with the Caribbean basin; with Alaska and with other parts of North, Central and South America.”