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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=PT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:PT'>50 to 52 MHz full extended band in Portugal from next April<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:PT'>The National Communications Authority of Portugal (ICP-ANACOM) welcomes the proposal of 2 amateur radio colleagues, José Carlos (CT1DHM) and João Costa (CT1FBF), in order to amend the upper range limit of 50.5 MHz on the 6 metres band, from next April 4th 2012; the date of the complete switch-off of the analogue TV broadcasting transmissions to digital terrestrial television. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:PT'>The new limits of the band allocation for Portugal will be from 50 MHz to 52 MHz.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:PT'>Such opening, regarding the new upper limit for Portuguese ham radio 6 metres band, was possible thanks to the end of the old analogue signal TV broadcasting transmissions, on the lower VHF band (channels 2 to 4) after that date.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:PT'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:PT'>Miguel Andrade CT1ETL</span></i></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:PT'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Fonte: <span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.google.pt/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CDgQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.southgatearc.org%2F&ei=eUwpTp2LCoyHhQeowKWCDA&usg=AFQjCNHE9ErYzmZdO6dsy4y_2M7jSxvhFA&sig2=JOEyaGQT5zhzBaK9_5ONOA"><em><span style='color:#2200C1'>Southgate</span></em> Amateur Radio News</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>