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Amateur Radio Newsline Report 1847 January 4 2013

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 09:21 PM PST
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Amateur Radio Newsline™ Report 1847 – January 4 2013



Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1847 with a release date of January 4
2013 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.



The following is a Q-S-T. The FCC begins work to create a new Citizens
Broadband Service; the ARRL asks the FCC to create a new low frequency band
from 472 to 479 kHz as Ireland gives that same spectrum to its ham radio
community; the 2013 International DX convention finds a new home at the
Visalia California Convention Center and the transistor reaches age 65.
Find out the details as we ring in the New Year with Amateur Radio
Newsline™ report number 1847 coming your way right now.





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RESTRUCTURING: FCC PROPOSES 3.5 GHZ CITIZENS BROADBAND SERVICE



First there was the old Class A and Class B Citizens radio of the 1940’s.
Then came 11 Meter Class D Citizens Radio Service in 1958. Next was the
Family Radio Service authorized in the United States since 1996. That was
followed in 2000 by MURS or the Multi Use Radio Service. Now in 2013, the
FCC is proposing to create a new Citizens Broadband Service and it’s like
nothing else the regulatory agency has ever attempted before. Amateur
Radio Newsline’s Norm Seeley, KI7UP, has the details: