Comment filed on the FCC page in favor of 11306. Here is a gentleman who misunderstands the historic leadership of the AM community in volunteering to coordinate our QSOs in a given area to minimize friction with other modes and activities. The ARRL does not do the allowing. He fails to realize that this offer to coordinate was supposed to generate reciprocal respect from users of incompatible modes.
In the filing, he says: "The ARRL bandwidth proposal appears workable with one exception, allowing double sideband AM 9kHz. SSB was created to conserve spectrum and allow more stations to operate in a given bandwidth. AM stations were allowed to operate in certain segments of each band in accordance with the ARRL voluntary band plan to reduce destructive interference to SSB stations. In recent years some of these AM stations have chosen to violate the band plan and operate anywhere in the phone bands, creating harmful interference to SSB operations (this is particularly evident on the 80 meter band). If the FCC is to allow 9 kHz for these stations, rules should be implemented to restrict these stations to a 4.5 kHz bandwidth (SSB AM) if they do not abide by the ARRL band plan." W4VR/1 Extra, ex K1YIW Ron Grandmaison 1913 Sly Brook Rd. Eagle Lake, ME 04739 Surprisingly, old Ron has a broadcast engineering background (you would think he would have an appreciation for AM). Check his profile on QRZ.com. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
