... like to play in the >10GHz regions.

In the UK, we are licensed to use the following:

10GHz:

10,000 to 10,500 MHz

24GHz:

24,000 to 24,250 MHz

47GHz:

47,000 to 47,200 MHz

76GHz:

75,500 to 81,000 MHz

The following bands are also allocated to the amateur service and the amateur satellite service:

122,250-123,000 MHz

134,000-136,000 MHz

136,000-141,000MHz

142,000-144,000 MHz

241,000-248,000 MHz

248,000-250,000 MHz

I'm not entirely sure what goes on at these lofty heights (my amateur radio use stops at 440MHz at the moment), but I bet it'd be pretty cool to make a contact on 250GHz!

Cheers

Josh

I still remember playing with the "3 cm wave" box in Nuffield Physics. Maybe modulating it is the difficult part?

I believe the Amsat-DL P5A Mars mission will be using 10.5GHz. Also the long-delayed P3E satellite definately has an X-Band (10GHz) downlink, and I believe it has an X-Band beacon too.

Having said that, I have nothing (yet) to receive on 10GHz.

Regards,

Paul

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Yeh, but at those frequencies the range isn't likely to be long enough for your left hand to tell your right hand what it's doing.

So, perfect for Ofcom then ...

My Tin-foil hat don't work at those frequencies...

time to buy that bunker or move to somewhere where they won't waste money on such crap.

Hmmm looks like im off to Russia, well... Georgia is buggered up, Ukraine is about to be nuked. I can't even go to the north or south poles, as they are about to melt(if they havnt already, and the yanks have suppressed the data)

:(

At these nosebleed high frequencies, it's getting increasingly difficult to tell the difference between millimeter waves and long wave infrared. Anything above a few dozen GHz is getting into the realm where the atmosphere absorbs a lot due to the elements such as water and gas. So what's the point of trying to transmit up there? I dunno...