IARU Region 2 agrees to 15m satellite allocation

I think it's a great idea. Substitute periods of no ionospheric propagation with satellite hf uplinks/downlinks to keep the bands active. Brilliant!

 

This is STUPID. Might as well include 20m and 40m in satellite band plan!

 

As it turns out, 20m and 40m are allocated to the amateur satellite service. Specifically, 7.0 to 7.1 MHz and 14.0 to 14.25 MHz.

Also, allocated to amateur satellite is 18.068 to 18.168 MHz and 24.89 to 24.99 MHz.

 

Another country heard from, I guess ... But I sure enjoyed the Russian RS satellites ... could work them with my simple dipole. That said, I gotta agree with others here .... the entire 15 meter phone band is a bit much .... there would always be someone who couldn't look up the link freqs ... or didn't have access to them ... who would QRM someone else working the bird .... not exactly good for that "good will" thing we pride ourselves on!! Maybe just a couple of good (small) chunks of bandwidth and call it good?