A Great new VHF CB Radio Band Ours if we want it? Read On

[Joloke]

Hi

Some of you may or may not know but Ofcom the Regulatory body for Radio Communications here in the UK have recently had a huge chunk of the VHF band returned to them after a lot of services have migrated frequencies due to modern technologies now available to them. Taxi's,Emergency services etc now often use computerized systems and no longer have any need for VHF voice communications hence why a whopping 26mhz worth of bandwidth has been returned to Ofcom and one of their proposals is to allocate a portion of that to the general public for a VHF Citizens Band service Thumb

Its ours if we want it,I know I do Wink

But we need to ask for this!

To ask is free all you have to do is fill out a simple online response form,people power the more of us that do this the greater the chance we will get this!

But lets not be greedy,what we really want is a service that echos what we have already but on a wavelength that lends itself to clearer higher quality transmissions Smile

VHF is amazing we only really need about 5 watts,maybe 10 watts maximum.

40 Channels around 12.5khz apart from each other will only take up a measly 500khz still leaving Ofcom with 25.5 mhz off free space to play around with Wink

And antenna's for VHF are very small often only 1 meter in length Smile

On the form their are questions regarding their agreed approach to the allocations processes,just simple yes or no will do there Wink

Its in the Additional Comments box you want to lay out a clear and concise argument for VHF CB Radio Smile

A clear and concise argument for a crystal clear Citizens Band System with nice compact sized antenna systems with greater distance capabilities that our current HF system Smile

The Current 27mhz system will remain don't worry this will be an extra CB Band in addition to what we already have Smile

Please help this cause it could benefit us all,yes old fashioned CB Radio on 27mhz is great and I wouldn't be without it but the more bands we have at our disposal the better the scope :ok

Please support this........................

Here are the links

This is Ofcom Proposals Document

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binari ... tation.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

And the one below is how to reply to request a VHF CB System Wink

https://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/consu ... spond/form" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Please note you have to actually tell them in the additional comments you want VHF CB

Thanks for listening Guyz it in our hands we can have this if we want it?

They have to consider it if enough people ask :mrgreen:

So please ask,tell your friends to fill this out and lets make this happen and lets get chatting Smile

We need to fill out the response form before 5pm 23rd May 2014 what you waiting for?