RadioBanter - View Single Post - Regulation by Bandwidth: RM-11305 and RM-11306

January 12th 06, 09:16 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

wrote:

They allegedly did a band-occupancy study - which consisted of scanning
the
HF bands over a 12 hour period of one day. As if that would be a
representative sample.

On a day with low sunspot activity in the middle of the week, no
doubt.

The ARRL proposal has some good points, but they manage to ignore a lot
of valid concerns like robot operation, and come up with a proposal that
few will support as it stands.

I dunno what it means that FCC is only allowing 30 days for comments,
but I hope it's an indication they think both of these are bad ideas...

I doubt that 30 day window will give them a whole lot of time to
make that "big" of a consideration, Jim.

My concern is that there are already too few folks out there who
really understand what their bandwidth requirements are now.

I am also afraid that they will OVER-simplify the regs to
something like "x" khz or narrower signals below "this" landmark, "y"
khz or wider signals above". The list of potential nightmares is
endless.

73

Steve, K4YZ