New draft Australian 40-metre band plan

The Wireless Institute of Australia has developed a new draft band plan for the 40m (7 MHz) amateur radio band.

The new plan is designed to

• encourage activity above 7100 kHz;
• stimulate experimentation in wideband digital modes; and
• integrate, as far as is possible, with the IARU region 3 plan, and the plans of other countries.

No existing nets will be affected by the plan.

The underpinning philosophy of the plan is to define band usage in terms of necessary bandwidth, rather than mode. However, it is recognised that some modes are incompatible, such as analogue voice and data. Accordingly, these modes are each assigned their own sections in the plan.

Read more about the proposed new bandplan..
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2006/wia_draft_band_plan.htm