colin McDonald writes:
> excellent stuff.
> I wonder if RAC also went and included the fairly limiting aspects of 60M
> operation that US hams are required to uphold...such as lower power, lower
> antenna gain etc.
> Seems as if RAC should have tried to get 60M included in the regular
> schedule of amateur frequencies including the standard HF power 
> limitations
> and no limitations on antennas and so on.
> I suspect though that RAC just copied the US regs on 60M.

	I am sure that is true but it is because both the United
States and Canada are members of the ITU or International
Telecommunications Union.

	The problem, as we all know, signals on HF can go
everywhere. The wonderful thing about HF, as we all know is that
signals can go everywhere. Yes, I repeated myself because that
is the blessing and the curse of HF so the US and Canada and any
other ITU members who want to give their amateurs access to
those frequencies pretty much have to be very cautious as that
is not a world-wide amateur band. If you listen to the 5
channels in the 60-meter band, you hear a number of signals that
are not amateur. They are possibly military digital
communications from other countries and for now, anyway, that's
just tough for us because we can't cause them any grief and must
endure all their noise. For us, the only allowed emission type is
A3 or human voice on upper sideband, only. So when you hear
those data bursts every second or so, that's somebody's army
trying to communicate. It might even be ours. Who knows?