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Six Meters in Austria:

Brief History:

1988-01-01: Official permission for receiving the Six Meter amateur radio band.

1990-02-01: Provisory permission for transmitting, following conditions imposed:

Frequency range: 50 - 52 MHz, secondary basis, modes: A1A, J2B, F1B, J3E (CW and SSB).
Maximum power: 25W (PEP) into a directional antenna (Yagi) with 3 or more(!) elements, horizontal polarisation only.
Wide local restrictions around Austrias only TV-station on channel E2: "Jauerling" in JN78 square.
Neither other national nor international radio services must be disturbed.
Transmissions allowed at fixed licensed locations of Austrian amateur radio stations only.
This means, no mobile or portable operation, no CEPT licenses too.
During the transmit mode, the license owner or station responsible person must be attainable by telephone at any time, in order to be able to arrange an immediate disconnection of the amateur radio station in case of disturbances, which means practically no beacons or repeaters.

1996-08-01: Restrictet area for transmitting reduced to large parts of OE3, a bit of OE1 and OE5 (see dotted sector at the map below)
max. power increased to 100W (PEP).

2006-02-02: more modes, including packet radio and FM: J2D, F1D, F2E, F3E, J3E
no more restrictions about antenna and polarisation
permission for mobile operation with lambda/4 antenna
repeaters and beacons with 10 W ERP max.

2008-11-12: No restrictions concerning area, antenna, operation mode and mobile operation anymore.
Visitors from abroad with CEPT license class1 are allowed to use the band.

OE - prefixes, suffixes and locators:

An Austrian callsign usually consists of "OE" and a number, indicating the state (see map below), followed by 1 to 3 letters.

*rem.: OE0 was first used in May 2015 as a special callsign during the European Song Contest in Vienna. This is to commemorate the many artists that get zero points, hi.

special suffixes:

• one letter only - contest call for club stations,
  2 or 3 letters, starting with X - club stations, repeaters, beacons...
  2 or 3 letters, starting with Z - guest licences
  *rem.: a two lettered suffix usually indicates a really "O"M,
  who got his licence in the early sixties or before

OE 6m firsts list:

first ever contacts from Austria on Six Meters.

This table was created by OE6DGG (silent key) in 1992 and continued by myself in august 1998.
updates welcome!

worldwide 6m firsts fists:

9A BV CE CT DL EA EA6 EA8 EA9 EI ES EY FJ G GD GI GJ GM GU GW H4 HA HB9 HP HV I IS IT JA JW JX K LA LY OE OK ON OX OY OZ PA PJ5/6 PY PY0F PY0S PY0T S5 SM SP SV TA UR VE VS6 VK VK9X VK0 VP8 XE ZF ZL ZP ZS

6m bandplan:

IARU Region 1 Six Meters Bandplan with restrictions in Austria

6m links:

6m News - 6m Pages - 6m DX-peditions - 6m Tape Archives - 6m Equipment - 6m Related Infos - propagation - and more

OE links:

OE QSL COLLECTION the world's largest, 3 Mio. pieces
ÖVSV (Österreichischer Versuchssenderverband), the Austrian section of the IARU
ADL 608 ("Austrian District Locator"), Ortsstelle Fürstenfeld des ÖVSV
ACF Amateurfunk Club Fürstenfeld, OE6XFF

About OE4WHG (myself):

see my QSL card, ham radio biography, rig and records on six,
my awards, like 6m DXCC and 6m WAZ, the first ones in OE.

   
ARRL Six Meters DXCC # 314                 CQ Six Meters WAZ # 48

made in July 30, 1998

last update: 2022-07-12

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