United States amateur license reference

Frequency Privileges

See where each license class is authorized to transmit, and which emission types are authorized there. Your privileges follow your license and your callsign's country, not your grid.

United States license classes

Derived from 47 CFR 97.301 & 97.305

Where each license class is authorized to transmit, and which emission types are authorized there. Derived from 47 CFR 97.301 and 47 CFR 97.305 as amended 2026-02-13. This is not a band plan: where CW, digital, and phone conventionally sit within a band is voluntary guidance published separately by ARRL and the IARU societies, and is not reproduced here.

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Mark class

Showing ITU Region 2, the default for domestic US operating. Your license class is not known to dalMap, so no row is marked.

What this shows, and what it does not

A United States license states different edges in each ITU region — 40 m ends at 7.200 MHz in Region 1 and 7.300 MHz in Region 2 — so the region changes what is drawn. An upgrade is effective when you earn it, while the public record catches up later, so you can mark a class the record has not reached; marking one changes which row is emphasized and grants nothing. Club stations and callsigns outside the United States have no class in the records dalMap reads.

Morse code is authorized on any frequency your class may use, which is why every band carries it. 60 m is not shown. In the United States it is four discrete channels and one narrow range rather than a band to tune across, with conditions that its frequency edges alone do not carry. Read 47 CFR 97.301 and 97.305 for 60 m. Bands above 70 cm are authorized but not drawn here. 47 CFR 97.301 and 97.305 carry them in full.

Amber marks operating convention rather than regulation.

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160 m1.800–2.000 MHzTypical sideband LSB

Emission types

Entire band Morse code (CW)
Entire band Radioteletype, Data
Entire band Voice, Image

Amateur Extra1.800–2.000

Advanced1.800–2.000

General1.800–2.000

80 m3.500–3.600 MHzTypical sideband LSB

Emission types

Entire band Morse code (CW)
Entire band Radioteletype, Data

Amateur Extra3.500–3.600

Advanced3.525–3.600

General3.525–3.600

Technician3.525–3.600

Novice3.525–3.600

75 m3.600–4.000 MHzTypical sideband LSB

Emission types

Entire band Morse code (CW)
Entire band Voice, Image

Amateur Extra3.600–4.000

Advanced3.700–4.000

General3.800–4.000

40 m7.000–7.300 MHzTypical sideband LSB

Emission types

Entire band Morse code (CW)
7.000–7.100 Radioteletype, Data
7.075–7.100 Voice, Image
7.100–7.125 Radioteletype, Data
7.125–7.300 Voice, Image

Amateur Extra7.000–7.300

Advanced7.025–7.300

General7.025–7.125, 7.175–7.300

Technician7.025–7.125

Novice7.025–7.125

30 m10.100–10.150 MHzNot used for contestsTypical sideband USB

Emission types

Entire band Morse code (CW)
Entire band Radioteletype, Data

Amateur Extra10.100–10.150

Advanced10.100–10.150

General10.100–10.150

20 m14.000–14.350 MHzTypical sideband USB

Emission types

Entire band Morse code (CW)
14.000–14.150 Radioteletype, Data
14.150–14.350 Voice, Image

Amateur Extra14.000–14.350

Advanced14.025–14.150, 14.175–14.350

General14.025–14.150, 14.225–14.350

17 m18.068–18.168 MHzNot used for contestsTypical sideband USB

Emission types

Entire band Morse code (CW)
18.068–18.110 Radioteletype, Data
18.110–18.168 Voice, Image

Amateur Extra18.068–18.168

Advanced18.068–18.168

General18.068–18.168

15 m21.000–21.450 MHzTypical sideband USB

Emission types

Entire band Morse code (CW)
21.000–21.200 Radioteletype, Data
21.200–21.450 Voice, Image

Amateur Extra21.000–21.450

Advanced21.025–21.200, 21.225–21.450

General21.025–21.200, 21.275–21.450

Technician21.025–21.200

Novice21.025–21.200

12 m24.890–24.990 MHzNot used for contestsTypical sideband USB

Emission types

Entire band Morse code (CW)
24.890–24.930 Radioteletype, Data
24.930–24.990 Voice, Image

Amateur Extra24.890–24.990

Advanced24.890–24.990

General24.890–24.990

10 m28.000–29.700 MHzTypical sideband USB

Emission types

Entire band Morse code (CW)
28.000–28.300 Radioteletype, Data
28.300–28.500 Voice, Image
28.500–29.000 Voice, Image
29.000–29.700 Voice, Image

Amateur Extra28.000–29.700

Advanced28.000–29.700

General28.000–29.700

Technician28.000–28.500

Novice28.000–28.500

6 m50.000–54.000 MHzTypical sideband USB

Emission types

Entire band Morse code (CW)
50.100–51.000 Tone-modulated Morse (MCW), Voice, Image, Radioteletype, Data
51.000–54.000 Tone-modulated Morse (MCW), Voice, Image, Radioteletype, Data, Test transmissions

Amateur Extra50.000–54.000

Advanced50.000–54.000

General50.000–54.000

Technician50.000–54.000

2 m144.000–148.000 MHzTypical sideband USB

Emission types

Entire band Morse code (CW)
144.100–148.000 Tone-modulated Morse (MCW), Voice, Image, Radioteletype, Data, Test transmissions

Amateur Extra144.000–148.000

Advanced144.000–148.000

General144.000–148.000

Technician144.000–148.000

1.25 m219.000–225.000 MHzTypical sideband USB

Emission types

Entire band Morse code (CW)
219.000–220.000 Data

Amateur Extra219.000–220.000, 222.000–225.000

Advanced219.000–220.000, 222.000–225.000

General219.000–220.000, 222.000–225.000

Technician219.000–220.000, 222.000–225.000, 222.000–225.000

Novice222.000–225.000

70 cm420.000–450.000 MHzTypical sideband USB

Emission types

Entire band Morse code (CW)
Entire band Tone-modulated Morse (MCW), Voice, Image, Radioteletype, Data, Spread spectrum, Test transmissions

Amateur Extra420.000–450.000

Advanced420.000–450.000

General420.000–450.000

Technician420.000–450.000

The WARC bands are not used for contest operating, by long-standing agreement among the amateur societies rather than by regulation. Transmitting there is entirely lawful, and the bands marked above are drawn like any other.

Always confirm your license class, location, mode, and current local rules before transmitting. Nothing here is a compliance engine.