2 Meter Band Plan

Kansas Amateur Repeater Council, Inc.

144.000-148.000 MHz Frequency Use Plan (Proposed, not approved)

144.000 – 144.050     EME (CW)
144.050 – 144.100 CW and Weak Signals
144.100 – CW National Calling Frequency
144.100 – 144.200 EME and Weak Signal SSB
144.200 – SSB National Calling Frequency
144.200 – 144.275 General SSB Operation
144.275 – 144.300 Propagation beacons
144.300 – 144.500 OSCAR Sub-band
144.390 – APRS Nationwide
144.510 – 144.890 FM and Digital Repeater Uplinks
144.900 – 145.000 FM Simplex
145.010 – 145.090 FM Packet
145.110 – 145.490 FM and Digital Repeater Downlinks
145.5125 – 145.790 Digital Voice Simplex
145.800 – 146.000 OSCAR Sub band
146.010 – 146.385 FM and Digital Repeater Uplinks
146.410 – 146.440 Shared/Non-protected Repeater Uplinks
146.460 – 146.595 FM Simplex
146.520 – FM National Calling Frequency
146.610 – 147.390 FM and Digital Repeater Downlinks
147.410 – 147.440 Shared/Non-protected Repeater Downlinks
147.465 – 147.585 FM Simplex
147.600 – 147.990 FM and Digital Repeater Uplinks

20 Repeater Pairs, 20 KHz Channel Spacing, 600 KHz offset

Uplink > DownlinkUplink > DownlinkUplink > Downlink
144.510 / 145.110144.530 / 145.130144.550 / 145.150
144.570 / 145.170144.590 / 145.190144.610 / 145.210
144.630 / 145.230144.650 / 145.250144.670 / 145.270
144.690 / 145.290144.710 / 145.310144.730 / 145.330
144.750 / 145.350144.770 / 145.370144.790 / 145.390
144.810 / 145.410144.830 / 145.430144.850 / 145.450
144.870 / 145.470144.890 / 145.490

53 Repeater Pairs, 15 kHz Channel Spacing, 600 kHz offset 

Uplink > DownlinkUplink > DownlinkUplink > Downlink
146.010 / 146.610146.025 / 146.625146.040 / 146.640
146.055 / 146.655146.070 / 146.670146.085 / 146.685
146.100 / 146.700146.115 / 146.715146.130 / 146.730
146.145 / 146.745146.160 / 146.760146.175 / 146.775
146.190 / 146.790146.205 / 146.805146.220 / 146.820
146.235 / 146.835146.250 / 146.850146.265 / 146.865
146.280 / 146.880146.295 / 146.895146.310 / 146.910
146.325 / 146.935146.340 / 146.940146.355 / 146.955
146.370 / 146.970146.385 / 146.985147.600 / 147.000
147.615 / 147.015147.630 / 147.030147.645 / 147.045
147.660 / 147.060147.675 / 147.075147.690 / 147.090
147.705 / 147.105147.720 / 147.120147.735 / 147.135
147.750 / 147.150147.765 / 147.165147.780 / 147.180
147.795 / 147.195147.810 / 147.210147.825 / 147.225
147.840 / 147.240147.855 / 147.255147.870 / 147.270
147.885 / 147.285147.900 / 147.300147.915 / 147.315
147.930 / 147.330147.945 / 147.345145.960 / 147.360
147.975 / 147.375147.990 / 147.390

3 Shared/Non-Protected Repeater pairs, 15 kHz Channel Spacing, 1 MHz Split

  • Must use CTCSS/DCS, or digital equivalent signalling method.
  • Maximum antenna centerline height above ground: 50 feet.
  • Maximum ERP of 100 watts. (Example: 40 watts into 4 cavity duplexer, 60 feet of LDF4-50A, DB-224 antenna would qualify)
Uplink > Downlink
146.410 / 147.410
146.425 / 147.425
146.440 / 147.440

25 FM Simplex channels, 15 kHz Channel Spacing

144.910, 144.925, 144.940, 144.955, 144.970, 144.985.

146.460, 146.475, 146.490, 146.505, 146.520*, 146.535, 146.550, 146.565, 146.58, 146.595.

147.465, 147.480, 147.495, 147.510, 147.525, 147.540, 147.555, 147.570, 147.585.

* Denotes the national FM simplex frequency.


23 Digital Voice/Data simplex channels, 12.5 kHz Channel Spacing
(Narrowband only)

145.5125, 145.525, 145.5375, 145.55, 145.5625, 145.575, 145.5875, 145.600, 145.6125, 145.625, 145.6375, 145.650, 145.6625, 145.675, 145.6875, 145.700, 145.7125, 145.725, 145.7375, 145.750, 145.7625, 145.775, 145.7875.


5 FM Packet simplex channels, 20 kHz Channel Spacing

145.01, 145.03, 145.05, 145.07, 145.09.