6m FM simplex frequencies

[JKC]

Hi all. Just picked up a 6m FM HT and now it's time to program it.
I'm curious what the common simples frequencies are (other than
52.525). I'm limited to 5 memory channel so I want to make the
best of what I have.

Thanks.

John VE7JRX

[n8...@mjbrowns.com]

52.525
52.54
52.49
51.50
51.60

PeAcE...

Andy N8OFS GOT6???
http://noars.net/got6/GOT6.txt
6 til death!!!

[WB7RSG]

Here is a link to the Oregon Region Relay Council's "Band Plans" they
seem to think they are in charge of this sort of thing.

http://www.orrc.org/Docs/BandPlans/Band%20Plans%20ALL.pdf

and here is what the ARRL has to say about band plans..... not much
help here either.

http://www.arrl.org/band-plan-1

Note that the plans do not match...... even the repeater offsets are
different......

In any case, make sure the radio has 52.525MHz and probably 100 Hz
CTCSS encode. When I listen on 6 FM, I use a crystal controlled
commercial base station, 100 Hz seemed to be the most popular tone,
luckily I had the right PL reed (1Z) in the junk box........ there are
at least a few stations using 127.3 Hz (3A). Leaving a remote
controlled receiver in "carrier squelch" mode on 6 meters will
eventually make you crazy. if you send tone, more remote base stations
are likely to hear you, and there is no harm in sending the PL tone
otherwise...... sorry, "PL" is a registered trade mark of Motorola
Corporation, I should use CTCSS instead...... real radios used to have
bat wings on them.

There are few repeaters around that work pretty well, you might want
to save a few channels for them. A bit of internet searching will
probably find the details for you to pick the best ones.

http://www.orrc.org/ARRL%20Query%20All%20-%205_10.pdf

If it were simple, anybody could figure it out :-)

73 DE WB7RSG

[Bruce Junkin]

There is a group in California that also use 50.300 Simplex for FM. I have
worked AA6DD in Riverside, California on FM once or twice.

Bruce, KI7JA

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[WB7RSG]

Ah, yes.... they use 50.300 because most "serious" 6 meter antennas
don't have enough bandwidth to make it up into the "FM repeater" part
of the band..... I've worked folks there too from time to time.

Typical hill top remote base stations have 52.525MHz with CTCSS, some
have a second channel for "local simplex". All of the remote base
stations I've had any contact with were running vertical polarization
with some kind of "commercial" land mobile base station antenna for
talking to mobiles and HTs.... Good hill tops are hard on antennas,
you need a tough one for a remote base. For a hand held, I don't know
if adding a channel that far down the band would be a good use of a
channel position...... with only 5 channels, I'd do 52.525MHz with 100
Hz, a second simplex near by in case .525 is busy, or you wanted to
chat without cluttering up the calling channel, maybe 52.54MHz. I'd
use the last 3 for the 2 closest repeaters and one far away that
sounded interesting.

73 DE WB7RSG

[kb7...@donobi.net]

And, of course you are in Canada someplace... and the past information is
somewhat relevant in good tropo/Es conditions... Thus, when the band is
open stuff is most likely to show up on 52.525... and who knows where
either side of that... Get on a mountain with a high-gain omni and see
what you hear where, when the band isn't open... That may provide the best
"real" information... I park a rig on the SSB/CW calling frequency 24/7,
and do very little if any FM work as the antenna here is horizontally
polarized and cut for the bottom of the band... and does not have a CTCSS
generator installed, although other devices used here do...

Don't even get me started on the silliness observed on 2 meters!!!-)

Eric
KB7DQH

[n8...@mjbrowns.com]

> There is a group in California that also use 50.300 Simplex for FM. I
> have worked AA6DD in Riverside, California on FM once or twice.
>

I use it out here in Ohio, when the band is screaming, there's always
somebody to work... Don't forget it is Horizontal Polarity...
>
> Bruce, KI7JA
>
Andy N8OFS GOT6???