"Chuck...K1KW" wrote in message news:iE%Ob.85899$Rc4.333443@attbi_s54...
This proposal is a good start. However, the ultimate goal should be to
align our privileges with those of the rest of the amateur radio world and
REMOVE all mode restrictions.

CW US operators can operate anywhere in the US bands but US phone is
restricted. A clear case of discrimination, and a "mode-ist" one at that!!
Politically incorrect these days....and a major waste of sprectrum!! (Just
tune the CW bands during any non contest day). A carry over from the olde
days when the ARRL was clearly a CW only group of old buzzards.

"PC" my butt.

CW is authorized "anywhere" since it is a narrow band mode
requiring only a fraction of the bandwidth of any voice mode.

The ONLY time I've ever heard CW in a "voice" allocation was a
mobile station trying to check in to a net that wasn't being heard
otherwise. It worked well.

I submit that US Extra class licencee's should be allowed to operate phone
anywhere that the rest of the world can. Is that fair??? Or are we still
destined to live in an amateur radio world surpressed by our own government?

No, it's not "fair".

Most US Amateurs are allowed to run far more power than they
need, and in most cases area able to erect antenna systems that
overshadow those of many other countries. Like it or not, we owe it
to the rest of the world to restrain all that ERP.

Hey...ARRL, WAKE UP!!! If you want to keep the activity up you need to
promote frequencies where we can talk to the rest of the world! How can I
make this any clearer??? And provide incentives to do this!!! An extra
25KHz doesn't make it.

Like it or not, not all of the world is chomping at the bit to
have US Amateurs able to pounce on them at every turn. When Podunk
Island is ready to work the pile-ups, he'll announce his intentions.
Otherwise, WHY do we need to have all that spectrum? Except on
contest weekends it's ahrd enough to strike up a QSO as it is anyway.

BTW....requiring CW should not be a requirement for HF operation. (Good
move by the ARRL on this with the new Novice proposal) Time to get over
it....and let the rest of the many good people get on the air!!! I say this
from having slaved over getting 20 WPM done to pass my Extra test (for those
measly 25 KHz of phone) and I rarely have used code since. So......don't
deny folks from HF just because code is "your favorite mode" and you are
proud that you have no microphone in your shack.....

Bully for you that you did it...However Morse Code STILL,
contrary to naysayers, plays an important part in international
communication in the AMATEUR Service. That' it's been put out to
pasture by the unwilling and the boistrous is evidient. That it's a
"good thing" is yet to be seen.

73

Steve, K4YZ