Low Frequency band for VK

October 1, 2008 by Arvadmin

The Australian Communications and Media Authority draft Australia Radio Frequency Spectrum Plan includes 135.7 to 137.8 kHz for the Amateur Service on a secondary basis.

The new allocation will be on the basis that VK radio amateurs do not cause harmful interference to radio navigation service stations that continue to operate in that part of the spectrum in a number of countries.

The band will be available in 2009 to Advanced Licensees after both the new plan begins and the amateur licence condition determinations (LCD) are amended.

It has taken more than 20-years to get an LF band in Australia although a few radio amateurs using scientific licences have been conducting experiments.

The breakthrough was when it was decided at the World Radio Communications Conference in 2007 decided that there be a world-wide allocation.

The final decision on its introduction in national radio regulations were left to each individual radio administration. Some 30 countries have already granted the LF band to their radio amateurs.