FM radio: You can use the Ham radio to listen to music, news, program, etc. on your local FM stations without being licensed.
Read moreWhat are HF ham frequencies?
Typically this can be 3.5 – 3.8 MHz , although in North America, frequencies up to 4.0 MHz can be used, although there is a broadcast band allocation above 3.8 MHz. This ham radio band can be quite noisy, especially at night as it is shared with other services and this can make it very busy.
Read moreWhat HF frequency is best?
HF users have found that using a frequency that is the MUF times 0.85 gives the best chance for good results. This is called the frequency of optimum transmission (FOT).
Read moreWhat frequencies are in the HF band?
High-frequency (HF) radio is in the 100- to 10-metre wavelength band, extending from 3 megahertz to 30 megahertz . Much of the HF band is allocated to mobile and fixed voice communication services requiring transmission bandwidths of less than 12 kilohertz.
Read moreWhat frequency do people talk on ham?
But most beginner’s focus on just two bands: 2 meter / 144-148 MHz and 70 centimeter / 430-440 MHz . Additionally, 2 meter and 70 centimeter are the bands used by local emergency radio services such as the Amateur Radio Emergency Service, Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service, and Community Emergency Response Teams.
Read moreCan you scan police with a ham radio?
Not normally. Ham radio bands are outside those of the police . Additionally – analogue emergency broadcasts are usually scrambled, and you would need some form of decoder to unscramble the audio. Digital technologies provide for digitally-encrypted transmissions – which are impossible to decode on ‘ordinary’ equipment.
Read moreWhat band is 400 MHz?
At the 84th Plenary Meeting of 3GPP RAN (3rd-6th June, 2019 in Newport Beach, California), 3GPP approved two new bands in the 400 MHz frequency range: Band 87, from 410-415 MHz uplink and 420-425 MHz downlink . Band 88, from 412-417 MHz uplink and 422-427 MHz downlink .
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