If I had to take a guess at least for 80 meters, since their bandwidth proposal is in limbo for some indeterminate time, is that their plan is going to revolve around phone, "wide" digital, CW, and "narrow" digital. CW and narrow digital stuff can reasonably coexist together. The "traditional" phone band plan has already been defined. Somewhere between existing phone and CW areas, the wide digital is going to be defined along with other stuff. Depending on who makes the best and loudest pitch, ESSB and AM will look for more defined areas, DX'ers will probably look for a bigger window, disaster and emergency management groups will look for more define frequencies with a surrounding "safe" area. Personally, I believe "windows" are counterproductive and literally lock you out from easily operating in the rest of the band, with people pointing fingers and raising a fuss, if you deviate from it
I don't operate 40 and 15 meters enough to even venture a guess on a band plan but I bet it will also be a similar split of modes (phone, "wide" digital, "narrow" digital/CW). ARRL is looking for as much input as we can muster. Without it, they will blindly reach into the hat and define a new band plan. Pete, wa2cwa On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:19:03 -0500 "Jim Wilhite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Boy Pete, I hope they don't try to run things for us all this time. > I am > against any band plan at present until we see who and what operation > moves > there. If they do anything, they should concentrate getting the OOs > to > monitor for intentional interference. That is rampant and going to > get > worse this winter. ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected]
