How to Demonstrate Ham Radio Bands

Video Transcript

"For Expert Village, I'm Kurt Glaser, N7QJM. Okay, these are the actual amateur radio bands in the high frequency area. Over on the left hand side here, we'll zoom in over here on the left hand side, this gives you the frequency range starting at the 10 meter band and going all the way up over to 160 meters, which is, as you can see quite low in the frequency. It's all the way down into the 1.8 megahertz frequency range. So, as you go higher in the meters the frequency actually gets lower. It goes all the way up into the 10 metes which is the 28 megahertz band for HF or high frequency operation. This chart is a real handy chart, we picked it up at a ham auction, and it works out really good. Next, we have the UHF or VHF/UHF band plan and you are entitled to operate in various frequencies. There is one new one on top of this, 1240, but this one starts here at the 6 meter band continuing from our 10 meters and frequencies continue to go up to 2 meters to 220 to the 440, which is around the business band they call in operating frequencies. The 900 band, which is where a lot of cellular traffic was, and then it goes up into the high gigahertz range here at the 1240 and actually, even higher in that, one step higher than that is the frequency that is used as well. Each one of these color graphs is to signify what type of operation you can do in that particular frequency range, then that is all dependent upon the type of class license you have."