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Carl R. Stevenson wrote:
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Carl R. Stevenson wrote:
Yhr FCC has already agreed to let the Novices and Tech plusses use the
General frequencies for CW. It's mentionned in passing in the NPRM.
However, I think they do envisage simply turning over an equivalent amount
of spectrum to phone, that is to say equivalent to the size of the current
Novice CW subbands.
No that is not what the FCC has agreed to as of yet. They mention that
there is another proposal out there to do this but they have not acted on
it. There wording does seem to indicate that they favor the change though.
It's not a really hot issue as there are very few active Novices and Tech
Plus amateurs out there. Most of the active ones have upgraded and it's
irrelevant to the inactive ones. Hopefully it will encourage them to become
more active since there is much more activity in the General portion of the
band.
Dee D. Flint, N8UZE