[aprssig] APRS on UHF?

[Phil - AD6NH]

This question gets asked every few years.  Some areas do have recognized UHF
frequencies for APRS (So. Cal is 438.975 for example).  The problem is, the
UHF band plan varies widely in different parts of the country, and efforts
to standardize have always run into road blocks because of local band plan
incompatibilities.

73
Phil - AD6NH
www.aprsca.net

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Patrick <winston at winston1.net> wrote:

> A question came to mind today to a couple of us on the way to work...  Why
> hasn't aprs
> standardized on UHF?  Being on the uhf bands would resolve many of the
> issues for mobile
> installations (ie de-sense to other 2m radios, car stereos, etc)...  True
> the coverage
> wouldn't be quite as long distanced, but the uhf bands seem to be a lot
> less used, and
> commercial uhf hardware is available cheaply and in abundance which could
> be easily
> modified for this sort of use...
>
> p
>
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