Making the most of whats left of the VHF/UHF bands

[Spider255]

I thought I would share some of my ideas on what can be done to squeeze a bit more life out of the old ham bands...

Link all analog repeaters together so that they have activity on them, this way they'll be UK wide and with internet links they'll also be world wide rather than repeaters sitting forever dead like many of them here. Surely it must cost money to keep these old disused analog repeaters going.

Simplex... have more events like 145 Alive to encourage simplex activity, we need some leaders who are good at getting people to talk on air, we could have quiz nights and other things on simplex... we need fresh new ideas. If it can be done on CB then it can be done on Ham radio. I think leadership is a big one...

70cms simplex could also do with some attention to get it active again.

4 meters I understand not everybody has an antenna up for 4 meters and it has not had much interest for a very long time but maybe a simplex internet link can be put on that too, at least then one 4 meter frequency will be in use.

Just some ideas. I'd be interested in any ideas that other people might have to make these bands active again or at the very least extend the life for a bit longer.

 

[a727469]

Without a reason to use the allocations, no one will use them. Simplex is a good idea but again there has to be a need. Linking does go on now but if there was an easy way to organize this into a much larger number that would help but again not many frequencies would be needed.
4 meters was rejected awhile back for many reason, plus even with the lower freqs 70mhz, a little lower band DX is about all that might be done.

The other means of communication have lowered the needs for all these frequencies and some would call that progress, but I wish there was a way to change or improve this as you say, but I really don’t see this happening.

Hopefully others have some better and more positive ideas than I do😢🙂