60-meter band

This article is about the amateur radio band. For the athletics event, see 60 metres. Regions with allocations in the 60m amateur radio band. Blue regions have official allocations. Green regions have experimental allocations. Red regions have emergency-only allocations. Cyan regions have allocations to limited license holders. The 60 meter band or 5 MHz band is a relatively new amateur radio allocation (not strictly a band), first introduced in 2002, that was originally only available in a few countries, such as the United States, United Kingdom, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Ireland and Iceland. Over a number of years however, an increasing proportion of countries' telecommunications administrations—together with their government and military users—have permitted Amateur Radio operation in the 5 MHz area on a short or longer term basis from discrete channels to a frequency band allocation. At present there is no worldwide common International Telecommunication Uni... (see more)