{"id":2955,"date":"2022-03-28T10:34:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/?p=2955"},"modified":"2022-03-28T10:34:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:34:08","slug":"some-uk-radio-amateurs-now-licensed-for-8m-40-42-mhz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/28\/some-uk-radio-amateurs-now-licensed-for-8m-40-42-mhz\/","title":{"rendered":"Some UK radio amateurs now licensed for 8M (40 -42 MHz)&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>John EI7GL<\/strong>&nbsp;reports Ofcom is now issuing some UK radio amateurs with temporary Innovation and Research licences to transmit in the 40 MHz band<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On his blog John writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Roger, G3XBM in the east of England can operate from the 2nd of April for 1-year with 5-watts. Roger writes&#8230; &#8220;After a very long wait OFCOM has approved my 8m TX permit that runs from April 2nd for a year.<br><br>It permits me to use 40-42MHz with digital modes (including CW) at 5W ERP max. I expect to erect a wire dipole which is directed towards Europe.<br><br>I expect to be mostly on FT8 around 40.676MHz with precise frequency done in liaison with others. What I hope is all 8m FT8 stations can be monitored with one USB dial setting, but spaced out. 5W should certainly cover Europe with Es. I shall try some local CW crossband QSOs, but hope to be on FT8 24\/7.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is understood G0JJL, G0JHC and G7PUV either have or are applying for licences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full blog post at:<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ei7gl.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/several-radio-amateurs-in-uk-obtain.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/ei7gl.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/several-radio-amateurs-in-uk-obtain.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John EI7GL&nbsp;reports Ofcom is now issuing some UK radio amateurs with temporary Innovation and Research licences to transmit in the 40 MHz band On his blog John writes: Roger, G3XBM in the east of England can operate from the 2nd <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/28\/some-uk-radio-amateurs-now-licensed-for-8m-40-42-mhz\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2956,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}