WSJTgroup: channel 5.358500 is dead on 60m

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David Tanks

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Feb 16, 2026, 9:45:59 AM (6 days ago) Feb 16

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In case you missed the announcement about changes to 60 meters,

here is the scoop.

David AD4TJ

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From: JP Tucson, AZ via groups.io <samcat88az=gmai...@groups.io>

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Sent: Monday, February 16, 2026 at 09:28:57 AM EST

Subject: Re: [wsjtgroup] channel 5.358500 is dead on 60m

Here's a graphic below of the new changes to 60 meters.

* Old Channel 3 at 100 W, gone

* New "VFO" at ONLY 9.15 WATTS - - - watch out for those sub-band edges

* 2.8 kHz max signal width.

On Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 4:47 AM wa9als via groups.io <wa9als=gmai...@groups.io> wrote:

So what's the change?

On Feb 16, 2026, at 01:07, rwkawa1200 via groups.io <rwkawa1200=hotma...@groups.io> wrote:

You bet, love working low power. Have made contacts with as little as .5w and had great signal reports at that power level. Working low power with the little FTX-1 field unit is lots of fun for sure.

Just made the post because I was just checking on 60m so see where FT8 might have moved to and people were still using that channel like it had not changed so figured there were probably lots of people who were not aware of the change.

73

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