"Dee Flint" wrote in
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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
It does say it will be in a different NPRM, but as you say, they seem to
favour it, so I beleive that means it will happen.