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ARRL Committee's "Bandwidth-Based Frequency Plan"
This one is as bad a Bonnie's abomination. Maybe worse.
http://www.arrl.org/announce/reports...f-digital.html w3rv |
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(N2EY) wrote in message ...
In article , (Brian Kelly) writes: This one is as bad a Bonnie's abomination. Maybe worse. http://www.arrl.org/announce/reports...f-digital.html How is it as bad or worse? I think it's much better! It's worse because Bonnie is a no-counter, the guys who wrote the ARRL version should have known better. I looked all of 'em up to find out where they come from. One is a VHFer, two or three others are big into HF APRS and HF Echolink sorts of interests. Lotta TAPR connections. Only one, maybe two of 'em do much with conventional HF modes. The real kicker is that the two really heavy hitters on the committee bailed away from it. We all know who G3PLX is and what he's done but his reason for resigning from the committeee is publicly unkown. The other is KH6TY who invented DigiPan PSK31 and PSK 63 and is the recipient of the 2000 ARRL Technical Excellence Award. He disagrees with the final output and supposedly will craft his own version of the report. First off, it does not widen the 'phone bands anywhere near as much as the KQ6XA plan. The phone bands *will* get widened and this report won't have anything to do with it. Nor does it decrease the Extra segments. Minor point overall but at least they had enough sense not to mess with that bag of worms. Second, the 200/500/2700 Hz rules So where's the 10/8Khz wide digital stuff gonna run? DRM will be excluded? are for a *voluntary bandplan*, not FCC regs. Bandplans work on bands 30 Mhz because Riley can enforce 'em when and where they actually matter. Voluntary bandplans for MF/HF have been out there for eons and they *don't* work. All adopting this proposal would do is generate more opportunities to bust bandplans. Third, it actually acknowledges that hams use modes like CW and Baudot RTTY. Wunnerful. Hang dividing lines somwhere around the bottom edges of what are now the lower limits of the phone bands. All modes above those limits gotta be 8-10 Khz wide max, everything below can't exceed 1 Khz wide and let the market sort 'em out. None of it matters anyway, we're both blowing hot air. This report was submitted almost two years ago and has gone nowhere. I'm not holding my breath waiting for the BoD to even address it let alone adopt it then dump anything even close to it on the FCC. 73 de Jim, N2EY w3rv |
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(Brian Kelly) writes: (N2EY) wrote in message ... In article , (Brian Kelly) writes: This one is as bad a Bonnie's abomination. Maybe worse. http://www.arrl.org/announce/reports...f-digital.html How is it as bad or worse? I think it's much better! It's worse because Bonnie is a no-counter, the guys who wrote the ARRL version should have known better. I looked all of 'em up to find out where they come from. One is a VHFer, two or three others are big into HF APRS and HF Echolink sorts of interests. Lotta TAPR connections. Only one, maybe two of 'em do much with conventional HF modes. The real kicker is that the two really heavy hitters on the committee bailed away from it. We all know who G3PLX is and what he's done but his reason for resigning from the committeee is publicly unkown. The other is KH6TY who invented DigiPan PSK31 and PSK 63 and is the recipient of the 2000 ARRL Technical Excellence Award. He disagrees with the final output and supposedly will craft his own version of the report. And KQ6XA'z is worse. First off, it does not widen the 'phone bands anywhere near as much as the KQ6XA plan. The phone bands *will* get widened and this report won't have anything to do with it. True, and that's a good point. Nor does it decrease the Extra segments. Minor point overall but at least they had enough sense not to mess with that bag of worms. Second, the 200/500/2700 Hz rules So where's the 10/8Khz wide digital stuff gonna run? DRM will be excluded? are for a *voluntary bandplan*, not FCC regs. Bandplans work on bands 30 Mhz because Riley can enforce 'em when and where they actually matter. Voluntary bandplans for MF/HF have been out there for eons and they *don't* work. All adopting this proposal would do is generate more opportunities to bust bandplans. Agreed! Third, it actually acknowledges that hams use modes like CW and Baudot RTTY. Wunnerful. Hang dividing lines somwhere around the bottom edges of what are now the lower limits of the phone bands. All modes above those limits gotta be 8-10 Khz wide max, everything below can't exceed 1 Khz wide and let the market sort 'em out. Bingo. This report was submitted almost two years ago and has gone nowhere. That says it all. It's a nocounter going nowhere. End of story.. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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