Amateur Radio Bands (UK)

Here we are covering the amateur radio bands available to UK amateur license holders. The reason for such specificity is that other countries have similar, but sometimes slightly different frequency allocations and power limits. It would be quite an undertaking to catalogue all allocations in all countries.
Once the core pages and sections here are complete, I may add separate pages for other countries and may even put together a record of things like marine and aeronautical frequencies.

As this falls below 3MHz, it is actually a MF (Medium Frequency) rather than a HF (High Frequency) band.

Propagation is limited to local contacts during the day, but DX is possible at night, especially around sunrise and sunset 

Unlike the higher HF bands, long distance propagation is often better around sunspot minimum when solar activity, and therefore noise level, is lower. 

maximum power on 160 metres is limited to 32 watts at frequencies above 1850kHz where amateurs are secondary. 

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60m

Less affected by D-Layer absorption than 80 m.
Is an ideal candidate for near vertical incidence skywave (NVIS), the most commonly used technique capable of providing seamless local-to-medium distance HF communications. Information about the critical frequency (foF2) of the ionosphere at any one time is highly important for setting up and maintaining reliable NVIS radio links. 

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