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The 6-meter band, 50 to 54 MHz, is the lowest VHF band available to US amateurs. Much of the time it is quiet, with range not much beyond the horizon, but with little warning it can open to stations a thousand miles away or, in the best years of the solar cycle, to other continents. Those sudden openings, many of them from summer sporadic E, earned it the nickname "the magic band". The whole band is open to Technician licensees, so many new hams first experience long-distance contacts here. Read more…