eHam.net News for Thursday 13 October 2016
 

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Current Rules Holding Hams Back from Adopting State-of-the-Art Technology:

Posted: 12 Oct 2016 01:42 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37741


In comments filed on October 12 with the FCC, ARRL reiterated its
case that the FCC should impose a 2.8 kHz limit on symbol rate for
digital modes, arguing that its approach is both balanced and
necessary. ARRL had asked the FCC to change the Part 97 rules to
delete the symbol rate limits in Part 97.307(f) and replace them
with a maximum bandwidth for data emissions of 2.8 kHz on amateur
frequencies below 29.7 MHz. In a July Notice of Proposed Rule Making
(NPRM) in WT Docket 16-239, the FCC proposed to eliminate the
current baud rate limitations for data emissions, consistent with
ARRL's Petition, but it declined to propose a bandwidth limitation
for data emissions in the MF and HF bands to replace the baud rate
limitations.