From: "David Knepper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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!
I hear a little CW on 3500-3560, and a couple of digital sigs above 3560.
Sometimes a couple of stations in the novice segment. But the freqs are
mostly vacant.
I propose that they simply eliminate subbands as they have in Canada, but
if CW and digital modes need protection from wideband QRM, the reserved
segment should be reduced to 3500-3550 or 3575 - with a similar reduction
on 40m. I work a substantial amount of CW in addition to AM (no SSB), and
IMO CW operation would be better if activity were concentrated in a smaller
space. With the 75A-4 in 300 Hz bandwidth, it is easy to overlook a lone
cw signal out of all the vacant kc's per dial rotation.
From: Patrick Jankowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>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.
>
>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.
I found your comment on the ECFS site. I copied your excerpts and posted on
the AM Window Bulletin Board. If you are not familiar with the board, the
URL is:
http://www.amwindow.org/wwwboard/wwwboard.html
I hope you have better results than I did with your links. I gained access
to the message by going thru the FCC web site. Both links always give me an
error message. I tried copying and pasting the URL into the address box -
same result.
Don K4KYV
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