The Australian Amateur Band Plan – 23cm

The 23cm band is accessible to Standard and Advanced licence classes

• Transmission bandwidth is not limited
• Standard operators using emission modes J3E or R3E are limited to 100 watts pX
• Standard operators using other modes are limited to 30 watts pY
• Advanced operators using emission modes J3E or R3E are limited to 400 watts pX
• Advanced operators using other modes are limited to 120 watts pY

• 1.240 – 1.300 GHz is a Secondary Amateur Allocation

• 1.240 to 1.241 GHz is reserved for repeater links (Group A)
• 1.241 to 1.259 GHz is reserved for Amateur Television Channel 1 operation
• 1.259 to 1.260 GHz is reserved for repeater links (Group A)
• 1.260 to 1.270 GHz is reserved for Satellite up-link operation
• 1.270 to 1.272 GHz is available for narrow band modes
• 1.271 to 1.272 GHz is available for experimental activity
• 1.272.025 to 1.273 GHz is available for repeater links (Group B)
• 1.273.025 to 1.273.975 GHz is reserved for Repeater Outputs
• 1.274 to 1.292 GHz is reserved for Amateur Television Channel 2 operation
• 1.292.025 to 1.293 GHz is available for repeater links (Group B)
• 1.273.025 to 1.273.975 GHz is reserved for Repeater Inputs
• 1.293.025 to 1.293.975 GHz is available for FM repeater and Simplex operation
• 1.295 to 1.297 GHz is available for narrow band modes ( SSB/CW)
• 1.295.900 to 1.296.100 GHz is available for Earth-Moon-Earth (EME) operation
• 1.297.025 to 1.300 GHz is available for digital simplex modes.

• Repeater Notes
• Standard repeater offsets for 23cm is 20 MHz
• 91.5 Hz for CTCSS is the common repeater access tone

• Additional Notes
• FM simplex use 25 KHz channel spacing.
• Avoid terrestrial operation in the EME segment
• 1.250 GHz FM ATV Channel 1
• 1.250 GHz DVB ATV Channel 1
• 1.283 GHz FM ATV Channel 2
• 1.278 GHz DVB ATV Channel 2

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