Gentleman, If the bandwidth limit of 3.5 KHz is to be implemented (unlikely I believe)... how unfair it would be in contrast to the broadcash stations that obliterate our hambands with super high power double sidebands with 10KHz bandwith playing music! For this reason and others, I think that this proposal (if real) is rediculous, not to mention that FM, TV and other wide band modes at the higher frequencies may be affected. If the FCC were real about this, maybe they would have previously implemented single sideband AM in the broadcast band so they could squeeze in twice as many AM atations, and phase out double sideband receivers in the general public. In fact... they could do and would have to do this in advance of changeing the transmitters, the same way the High definition TV format is getting it's foothold on us. If that commercial $$ power isn't enough to push bandwidth limitations, why would anyone care about ham radio? Besides, one could make a good case for using simple transmitters for emergencies that just happen to have double sideband emmissions, in light of the homeland security issues. Just some thoughts... George AB2KC
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of WILHITE, JIM Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 10:25 AM To: AMRadio Subject: [AMRadio] Fw: A rumor about ARRL I took the time to send a message to one of the directors mentioned in K1ZZ's message and here is his reply. I don't want to alarm people but now is the time to influence the direction of this proposal. I am hopeful the directors will listen to us. I think it gives a little insight into why the subject has arisen. Best we be on our toes. 73 Jim de W5JPW ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Frenaye Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 5:32 PM To: WILHITE, JIM Cc: Walt Stinson Subject: Re: A rumor about ARRL At 06:30 PM 8/14/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Although I am not in your district, I wish to express my feelings that this can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on its proposal. I agree!! Quite a number of things have to be worked out before we go forward to the FCC. Any action won't be for many months (at least)! >The rumor has stated that the maximum bandwidth be limited to 3.5 KHz. If this rumor is true, I want you to know I am deeply opposed and will file comments with the FCC as will many other members of the ARRL who are involved with AM operation. > >Can you substantiate this rumor please? Nope, can't substantiate it... Setting specific limits on maximum bandwidth was not discussed at the Board meeting as far as I recall. Just a rumor, something the Internet and some users like to start! But, now that the issue has been raised, are there limits to the bandwidth of different emission types that ought to be in our goals? The FCC often speaks to "good engineering practice" and I believe they would not like to hear a 5 khz wide SSB or RTTY signal, for example. -- Tom --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML or had an attachment. Attachments are not allowed. Please post in Plain-Text only.--- _______________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio
