From 29 March 2009 the band 7100-7200 kHz is allocated to the amateur service. This change took place during the WPX contest. It was good to note that most broadcasting stations disappeared at the agreed hour and that the contest stations were able to spread out over the band.

Many countries had access to this band before that date, the so called Early Access (EA in the table). Other countries were waiting for the official date before allowing their amateurs to operate in this new part of 40 meters. Unfortunately we see that in several countries the bureaucratic process takes longer than the date we already knew since WRC-2003.