Every US band, one card each, showing what each license class may send where.
Every Band, Card by Card
CW onlyCW and dataVoice and image tooOne row per license class. Power limits and exceptions are in the notes inside each card.
HF
160 m
1.8 MHz – 2 MHz
Voice and image too
80 m
3.5 MHz – 3.6 MHz
CW onlyCW and data
Power: Technician and Novice: 200 W PEP.
75 m
3.6 MHz – 4 MHz
Voice and image too
60 m
5.3305 MHz – 5.4064 MHz
Voice and image too
Power: Channels: 100 W ERP. 5.3515-5.3665 MHz: 9.15 W ERP.Only the four channels (5.332, 5.348, 5.373, 5.405 MHz center) and the 5.3515-5.3665 MHz band. 2.8 kHz wide at most. On the channels, phone and data go 1.5 kHz below center (USB dial 5.3305, 5.3465, 5.3715, 5.4035 MHz); CW on the center (97.303(h)).
40 m
7 MHz – 7.3 MHz
CW onlyCW and dataVoice and image too
Power: Technician and Novice: 200 W PEP.Phone on 7.075-7.100 MHz only for stations west of 130° W or south of 20° N (97.307(f)(11)).
30 m
10.1 MHz – 10.15 MHz
CW and data
Power: 200 W PEP.
20 m
14 MHz – 14.35 MHz
CW and dataVoice and image too
17 m
18.068 MHz – 18.168 MHz
CW and dataVoice and image too
15 m
21 MHz – 21.45 MHz
CW onlyCW and dataVoice and image too
Power: Technician and Novice: 200 W PEP.
12 m
24.89 MHz – 24.99 MHz
CW and dataVoice and image too
10 m
28 MHz – 29.7 MHz
CW and dataVoice and image too
Power: Technician and Novice: 200 W PEP.Technician and Novice: CW and single-sideband voice only (97.307(f)(10)).
VHF and UHF
6 m
50 MHz – 54 MHz
CW onlyVoice and image too
2 m
144 MHz – 148 MHz
CW onlyVoice and image too
1.25 m
219 MHz – 225 MHz
CW and dataVoice and image too
Power: 50 W PEP.Power: Novice: 25 W PEP.Only for fixed point-to-point digital message forwarding, such as packet backbones (97.303(l)).
70 cm
420 MHz – 450 MHz
Voice and image too
50 W PEP near some military areas (97.313(f)).
Below the Broadcast Band
2200 m
135.7 kHz – 137.8 kHz
Voice and image too
Power: 1 W EIRP (and no more than 1.5 kW PEP).Fixed stations only. Tell the Utilities Telecom Council first and wait 30 days (97.303(g)).
630 m
472 kHz – 479 kHz
Voice and image too
Power: 5 W EIRP, 500 W PEP (1 W EIRP in Alaska within 800 km of Russia).Fixed stations only. Tell the Utilities Telecom Council first and wait 30 days (97.303(g)).
Drawn from the same rules as our License Privileges Checker, typed from the FCC rules on eCFR (47 CFR 97.301, 97.303, 97.305, 97.307 and 97.313), read on 23 September 2026. The microwave bands from 33 cm up are in the checker and on the printable sheet: at one scale with 160 m they would be hairlines.
Where the Ham Bands Sit in the Radio Spectrum
A logarithmic scale, so every step to the right is ten times the frequency. For the full picture — every service, every band, all 3 kHz to 300 GHz — see NTIA’s United States Frequency Allocation Chart, a US Government work in the public domain.
Band Edges
Band
Range (MHz)
160m
1.800 – 2.000
80m
3.500 – 4.000
40m
7.000 – 7.300
30m
10.100 – 10.150
Band
Range (MHz)
20m
14.000 – 14.350
17m
18.068 – 18.168
15m
21.000 – 21.450
12m
24.890 – 24.990
Band
Range (MHz)
10m
28.000 – 29.700
6m
50.000 – 54.000
2m
144.000 – 148.000
These are the ITU Region 2 allocations that apply in the United States. Allocations differ elsewhere in the world, and band edges are not privileges — what you may use inside a band depends on your license class. Dial frequencies for a mode belong with the mode: FT8’s are on the FT8 page.