(Expeditionradio) wrote in message ...
An updated version of the entire article "A Bandwidth-Based Frequency Plan", is
no available on the web at:

http://www.qsl.net/kq6xa/freqplan/

Please refer to the new updated color chart of the frequency plan.

Did that. For one your "30M bandplan" would require both ITU and FCC
approval to implement. Good luck with that one Bonnie.

It equitably distributes the space within the allocated band so that
approximately the same number of narrowband 500Hz signals vs wider bandwidth
signals can share the precious spectrum resources. Keep in mind that the plan
is mode-neutral. If you can use technology to shoehorn a voice into 500Hz, then
you can transmit it anywhere in the band. You may laugh, but my experience
working with commercial DSP digital modulation systems proves to me that it can
happen in Amateur Radio.

In our present mode-based system in USA, we have a lot of nearly-dormant band
segments. When the number of HF operators doubles overnight,

*IF* the FCC buys into anything like the recent ARRL proposal AND
drops anything vaguely resembling that proposal on Hamdom USA MAYBE
the number of individuals licensed to actually get on HF MIGHT double.
All of which is pure conjecture right there and is a real stretch at
best.

What is not conjecture is the fact that there is no statistical
evidence which indicates that simply having a license to operate HF
somehow equates to those with any new "giveaway" HF ticket actually
putting together HF stations and getting 'em on the air on a 1:1 new
license privs/band occupancy ratio.

Quite the opposite is being demonstrated in fact. We already have tons
of experience with, for example, the recent huge increase in the
number of Extra Class licensees which fell out of the reduction in the
code test speed for Extras.

I tune the Extra 75/40/20M phone setasides today and the recently
enfranchised don't seem to be there. In volume. If anything the
overall activity level in those setasides is noticeably down from what
it was long before the code test speed was dropped.

we will no longer
have the luxury to waste spectrum as we have in the past.

The problem with HF ham radio, if there really is a problem, has
nothing to do with whimsical "bandplans" like yours, "we need space .
.. sombody might eventually do some 10Khz wide digital voice modes" or
any of the rest of it. The dead spectrum problem has far more to do
with getting the HF-enabled of all flavors off the Internet, off their
dead butts, geting the radios, actually putting the HF antennas up and
getting on the air than it does with any "bandwidth-based frequency
plan" sorts of things.

I would like to thank everyone who has contributed with suggestions and
constructive criticism during the development of the plan.

.. . . no problem, you're welcome . .


The article and band chart is now on the web at:
http://www.qsl.net/kq6xa/freqplan/

73---Bonnie KQ6XA

Brian w3rv