XPost: uk.radio.amateur, rec.radio.amateur.policy   
   From: not@for.mail   
      
   On 20 Jan 2018 09:54:22 GMT, Rob  wrote:   
      
   >Lucifer Morningstar  wrote:   
   >> In Australia we recently lost 420 to 430 Mhz.   
   >   
   >Pity for you.  But here in Europe we did not have that band segment for   
   >many decades.  70cm is 430-440 here in the Netherlands and even in that   
   >band there are subbands that are unusable (ISM band) and others that   
   >are secondary and where the primary service is quite active.   
      
   In Australia amateurs are secondary in 70 cm.   
      
   >In other European countries entire 1 or 2 MHz segments are not available,   
   >in some countries the band starts at 432 and ends at 438 or even 436.   
      
   We had 420 to 450 Mhz. We lost 420 to 430 to allow emergency   
   services to have a shared radio system.   
   There is a low power radio band in the 433 and 434 Mhz bands.   
   It happens that repeater inputs are in that range.   
      
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