More thoughts on this issue from e mail sent to me this morning - name with held;
ARRL may file Petition for Rulemaking against enhanced audio If you are among the enthusiasts for improved audio quality on the shortwave ham bands, you should know that the League's Board of Directors in July accepted a resolution to pursue with the Federal Communications Commission the idea of using bandwidth rather than mode to determine the placement of operating activities. Although the resolution was in the context of finding a place for digital communications technologies, chances are good that a bandwidth-defined protocol could directly affect your ability to continue using enhanced audio on the HF bands. If the proposal fails to include adequate specifications to allow the option of improved transmitted quality for traditional analog voice signals, it could render useless much of the labor and equipment you and others may have spent in the interest of achieving human-sounding communications as a specialty in the hobby. Please consider emailing your region's director and vice-director to discourage them from supporting such a Petition, should it ever come to fruition. I encourage you to act early to preclude rather than have to later defend against any formal proposal reaching federal regulators. The FCC in 1976 developed a similar bandwidth proposal as part of Docket 20777. It failed to win popular support, and was voted down by the Commission in 1977. The League has indicated no willingness to examine why the proposal was unsuccessful, but the fact remains 25 years later: Operating coordination, not technical constraint, is the best way to share our allocations among all the modes and activities we enjoy. ------------------------------------------------------------------- <eom> Your thoughts need to be sent to ARRL es the FCC about these important matters NOW........ Tom - K0PJG Life Member A.R.R.L. Thomas F. Fischel 8274 Cullowhee Mountain Road Cullowhee, NC 28723 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view Collins equipment ; http://www.qrz.com/callsign/k0pjg --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/related multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html application/octet-stream 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.---
