{"id":9419,"date":"2021-07-25T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T06:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/07\/25\/possible-victory-for-frank-jones-and-the-fmla-could-we-get-the-5-meter-band-back\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:38","slug":"possible-victory-for-frank-jones-and-the-fmla-could-we-get-the-5-meter-band-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/07\/25\/possible-victory-for-frank-jones-and-the-fmla-could-we-get-the-5-meter-band-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible Victory for Frank Jones and the FMLA?  Could We Get the 5 Meter Band Back?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/5metersback.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"261\" data-original-width=\"588\" height=\"178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/5metersback.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span face=\"Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;\"><b>EI7GL reports some very interesting IARU activity that could possibly result in the 5 Meter band coming back to amateur radio use: <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i><span face=\"Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;\">&#8220;The <\/span><span face=\"Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;\">60 MHz <\/span><span face=\"Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;\">or 5 metre band has the potential to be a future allocation for the Amateur Radio service. The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) are currently encouraging member societies to try and obtain small allocations at <\/span><span face=\"Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;\">40 MHz<\/span><span face=\"Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;\"> and <\/span><span face=\"Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;\">60 MHz<\/span><span face=\"Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;\">.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #fefdfa;\"><span face=\"Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #333333;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/ei7gl.blogspot.com\/p\/60-mhz.html\">https:\/\/ei7gl.blogspot.com\/p\/60-mhz.html<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span face=\"Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #333333;\"><b>Regaining<\/b><\/span><b style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;\"> 5 meters was, of course, the objective of <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/summer-reading-for-homebrewers-frank.html\">Frank Jones and the Five Meter Liberation Army<\/a>. Wouldn&#8217;t it be great of <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/michael-newton-hopkins-ab5l-author-of.html\">Michael Hopkins&#8217;<\/a> fictional tale actually ended up coming true! <\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SawFilter2.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"300\" data-original-width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SawFilter2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EI7GL reports some very interesting IARU activity that could possibly result in the 5 Meter band coming back to amateur radio use: &#8220;The 60 MHz or 5 metre band has the potential to be a future allocation for the Amateur Radio service. The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) are currently encouraging member societies to try &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/07\/25\/possible-victory-for-frank-jones-and-the-fmla-could-we-get-the-5-meter-band-back\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Possible Victory for Frank Jones and the FMLA?  Could We Get the 5 Meter Band Back?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jones-frank","category-vhf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9422,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419\/revisions\/9422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}