the radionews service had a brief article on this a while back, 500
khz, saying only China still uses 500 khz, for coastal traffic, and will
soon migrate off, and therefore there is a proposal to create a mini ham
band or channel around 500 khz (20 khz or so?) to honor the many radio
officers who died sending distress calls and lives saved etc.

fyi - bobm
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the radionews service had a brief article on this a while back, 500
khz, saying only China still uses 500 khz, for coastal traffic, and will
soon migrate off, and therefore there is a proposal to create a mini ham
band or channel around 500 khz (20 khz or so?) to honor the many radio
officers who died sending distress calls and lives saved etc.

fyi - bobm

If someone else hadn't proposed this I would have. more detail
please...how should we support this propsal ?

well, depends on where you are located; in USA, the ARRL program for WARC
planning would be one group to send input and support (as in $ ;-) as well
as the various LF (low-fers) groups etc.

in australia http://www.southgatearc.org/news/august/500khz.htm WIA assoc.
is pursuing the proposal too, this is similar to the blurb in radionews
posting (in rec.radio newsgroups in the last few months IIRC)...

regards bobm


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