At the beginning of June 2016 the WSPR VHF spot frequencies in IARU Region 1 where removed from the band plans.
At the time I wrote this response but have only now decided to publish it.
I'm
new to VHF WSPR and am really enjoying it. I've been on Two for over
30 years and if you'd ask me before I started using WSPR if I could
put a signal into JO23 (600Km) with 5 Watts under flat band
conditions I would have said noway but with WSPR I can! I'm impressed
and would like to find out what more can be done. So I'm not going
away yet but I do believe we should take the olive branch offered by
the RSGB VHF Manager and on Two, which is where the problem seems to
be, all just QSY to DIAL 144.490500MHz.
We
should also ask the VHF Managers to re-read their handbook paying
particular attention to these passages;
“The
basic philosophy behind bandplanning should be:
• to
assign frequencies for certain activities in such a way that all
current users can practice
the
various modes of amateur radio with a minimum of mutual interference,
provided they
are
using state-of-the-art equipment and communication techniques”.
“Technical
investigations by amateurs, be it in the classical field of
propagation research or on
modern
digital communication techniques etc. are a laudable and legitimate
aspect of amateur activity”.
“The
definition of the Amateur Service implies that bandplanning should
take into account all
aspects
of amateur radio – self-training, intercommunication and technical
investigations.
Consequently,
for any band the bandplan should aim to accommodate for the maximum
number
of amateur activities (modes, techniques), both now and in the
future.
Clearly
there are impossible situations: CCIR ATV cannot be carried out in
the 144 MHz
allocation
etc”.
