Patrick, the FCC could do everyone a "favor" by opening up the 80 meter band to voice communications. The only time that I hear CW from 3500 to 3700 is when there is a contest!
Our argument should be shifted in that direction and put the pressure on the FCC to change the rules. Allowing the 80 meter to open up to voice communications would alleviate the problem of overcrowding, i.e., interference on 75 meters. Dave, W3ST Secretary to the Collins Radio Association Publisher of the Collins Journal www.collinsra.com -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Jankowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 10:30 PM Subject: [AMRadio] BPL >I have dusted off the ancient and crufty tomes, and quoted Frederick >E. Terman, George E. Sterling, William I. Orr, among other luminaries, >to the FCC.. If invoking the elder gods not scare the devil out of >them, we have a lost cause. To summarize the writings of these >esteemed scholars and engineers, the minimum bandwidth for >understandability required is +/- 2700Hz, and for a communications >quality signal, 3000-3500 Hz. High quality is defined at 4KHz. > >(http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&id_docum ent=6514284296) > >Let those two whiners, who dared to drag AM into a slopbucket problem, >put that in their pipes and smoke it. > >I've also posted another comment. >(http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&id_docum ent=6514284244) > >There are only 56 comments as of now. How many AM enthusiasts are >there? and they need not all be hams, what of the SWLs who seek the >AM? Let's get active and get our friends active too! > >I am studying for my General, strictly for AM. Hate to see it ruined >before I can even get there. > >Patrick Jankowiak >FCC: PG-10-22028 >Amateur: KD5OEI >_______________________________________________ >AMRadio mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio
