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Seriously. 2m is the bread-and-butter of local ham communication. It's used as widely as the 11m CB radio band, and for similar purposes. Back when I had a car I had a 70cm/2m dual-band magnetic antenna on my roof that I would use regularly, as do many others.

It would also be insane to attempt to re-allocate this band for any other purpose, given how many millions of transmitters on this band already exist out there. The average car-mounted transceiver puts out 50 W. Many base stations run at hundreds of Watts, and are attached to quite excellent antennas (e.g. my parents have an 18 foot antenna on a mast at the top of their house, with a total base elevation of around 40 feet).

Good luck taking over the band. None of these drones can put out a tiny fraction of the power that the existing users of the band are already emitting.



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