Two Meter Band Plan: Ham Radio Q and A Episode 5
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- A popular landing spot for most new amateur radio operators is the two meter band. With the popularity of inexpensive handheld radios like this one, and the proliferation of two meter repeaters, it’s no wonder this is the new Technician’s first experience with ham radio. But the 2 meter band isn’t all voice and repeaters. Today we are going to talk about band plans, how they organize the two meter band, and what you can expect to find in between 144 and 148 Mhz.
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73! w3rrm. I originally liked this video 3 years ago most likely. Circled back because I've been digging deeper into my hand held. Great stuff Michael. I've had some fun 2m stuff happen. Some great .520 tropic SOTA simplex, an ARISS repeater contacts, and local weather info exchanges when stuff was crazy. More Sats in the future, and maybe SSB if i need a reason to buy a new rig LOL. Yoyr QSL card is proudly on display in the upper left corner of the cards on my qrz page :). Thanks for everything since ive started studying.
Great overview of 2m, Michael! Thanks for the post! 73 de N7CPM
Very helpful breakdown of this segment if the spectrum; thank you!
Good Video, thank you.
As someone looking at getting my technician license, I am aghast to learn how little room the ARRL left for simplex communications. I know that repeaters are important for long-ranged communications, but there may be more bandspace in GMRS and FRS than remains in 2-meter. To look at the chart, it would seem that few people use their 2-meter radio within the horizon, or is it that the people who like to set up repeaters were the most vocal.
In a real emergency, the kind with a continued blackout, the repeaters likely won't stay up longer than a few days. Everyone will be crammed onto a small space, making communication difficult.
I am not sure why so much space was left experimental--when there's no bandwidth left to add the thing your might be experimenting with.
Apparently, talking to the ISS, or keeping track of a forest fire?
I question the wisdom of only leaving less than 10% bandspace for simplex. It would seem that this is an ARRL-caused problem, not an FCC one. Or is there another problem.
Great video for us new to HAM .
Unfortunately, you did not explain why the band plan is split up into multiple rows. For example, why 144.9 --> 145.1 split up into Simplex AND Digital? In the 6meter Band Plan, 52.05-->53.0 is both Repeater and Simplex... Does this mean both types of communication can occur on that range? In the case of a repeater, the "established" repeater takes precedence, however, what about Simplex & Data? The basic rule of "First Come"?
Thank you.
Excellent video. Plethora of knowledge
Very good thorough review
that was great thanks for the info still studing to get ticket you did a great job on this
I enjoy your vids....73s, ki5brr...
Hi all-extreme newbie here.I just got licensed, but I've found that I now have a lot of pragmatic questions, such as:
How far away do I have to be from the other ham I am wanting to contact on vhf line-of-sight? I just want to test our radios
I'm glad to hear that you found the videos to be interesting and informative. You've got a great question and really if you are just testing a couple of hand held radios, you don't need to stand very far apart. Maybe just a few feet, so long as the audio output of one radio doesn't cause feedback in the microphone of the other. Handhelds have a pretty low power output, so you aren't going to overload one by transmitting at a close distance.
If you are testing mobile/base radios, or radios with a higher power output, I'd recommend that you get further apart, like maybe 20-30 feet or so. This isn't critical if the radio is at a low power setting, but at high power a mobile radio will easily swamp the front end of the other.
How to become a 2 meters user?
Can a novice license holder operate on 2 meater
No they can't. The only VHF band that Novices have privileges on is the 1.25m band (222-225MHz).
This is the most informative video I have seen on VHF. Thank you Michael. I also own that shirt and love it.
2 meter is an under used band in my opinion. Traveling across the country monitoring 2 meter its disappointing that its basically silent. I have repeater frequencies programed and use scsn mode and find little sctivity. I even have my call sign on the back of my RV and "monitoring 146.52" for years and have never made a contact from it on my travels. Kind of a disappointment.
doesno anyone ever use 2 m am anymore
Ugh, hallway monitor. Where's his little badge.
APRS does not stand for Amateur Position Reporting System. Is stands for Automatic Packet Reporting System. Why does everyone never say it correctly, especially if they are trying to teach people. Get it right or find a new hobby.
calm down everyone makes mistakes
Gets one thing wrong, gets kicked out of hobby. If that is how it works, none of us would have hobbies.
It's called AMATEUR radio, not PROFESSIONAL radio...it's okay to make mistakes
Geez
And we have only 144-146MHz on 2m🥲
UR4UNV
Thank You. Link to iss frequencies broken
Have plans to explore this band further. Wonder if this band will gain in popularity.
This would be great segments if he did this for each band..
Nicely done
Is there a way to get a personal/private frequencys? I do events and provide medical coverage and everybody has a ham radio and I don't want everybody to have to buy new radios.
has the US switched to the narrow fm (2.5khz deviation) yet ? I ask as UK and Europe have on 2m band uk is now 144 - 147mhz
Hi! another (dumb) question. I programmed the repeater into my baofeng bf f8hp, and I'm pretty sure I got all the settings right. But I have two problems/issues:
When I "query" the repeater, I get something back-lights, etc., but no sound. Also, someone had tried to call me on a particular freq; I could see he connected with me but I couldn't hear him. I turned the squelch all the way to 0, but no change.
I can't get warranty service cuz it was a gift-no receipt.
the other isse is that, after putting into mem the simplex freq, when I go to use it, I push the ptt button and it goes to an offset freq (as with the repeater). How do I get it to not go to an offset for "send" on simplex? I can't find anything in the book that mentions that,