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July 5th 05, 02:16 PM

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Alun L. Palmer wrote:

(IARU Bandplan)

Ditto the
looming opening of 7100-7200 in regions 1 and 3. Looks like the thing
was laid out 20 years ago, it's an artifact.

Bingo! So much for "dynamic reallocation of resources"..

.. . hi-tech term for anarchy . .

My big squawk with it though is that the top end of the CW-
exclusive
segemnt is 7.035. That's just plain nuts, only allows 10 Khz
for U.S.
non-Extras to operaste phone-free which simply will not work.

And that's if everybody plays by the bandplan!

Absolutely will not happen, guaranteed.

Alun says the 'phone segment starts at 7050 under that plan. Which
means that 'phone is primary on ~83% of the band! CW is primary on
~11%. The "digimodes" are stuck in between.

CW + digital from 7.000 to 7.100, phone and image from 7.100 to 7.300
and call it a day.

The spectrum-efficient modes are sacrificed to the spectrum-wasters.

I don't support the notion that there should be "reward allocations"
for spectrum efficiency because that can be twisted around and used as
a rationale for reducing the space allocated to efficient modes. The
better idea would be to keep the hard stops in place on their lower
limits and let them clean up their QRM problems by cleaning up their
modes & operations. The nonsense about narrow mode users giving up
space to "accomodate" the results of junk modes like "hi-fi SSB" and
overcompression and such really boils my oil. Let 'em sort it out their
sandbox and stay away from our sandbox, they do it to themselves, let
'em deal with it.

"From each according to his [spectrum] ability, to each according to
his [spectrum] need...." where have we heard that before?

From Darwin. Crush or get crushed and become extinct.

In a word fuhgeddit.

The 800 pound problem is that nobody sez whose bandplan is to be
followed. Does IARU outrank ARRL in the USA, or the other way around?
What if NCVEC, NCI, RSGB, CQ or qrz.com comes up with a bandplan of
their own?

On MF/HF it's all compulsive, ignorable micromanaging by amateurs, an
approach which has failed miserably in any number of fields. The FCC is
the law, they're the professionals, they're not ignorable and their
"bandplans" work just fine.

Like you said - fugedaboudit.

Dit . . .

73 de Jim, N2EY

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