I just follow the current rules and regulations on the books set forth by our FCC. If and when a proposal for changing the rules is submitted to the FCC, and if they assign an RM number to it, we then we have a process in place within the FCC to make all our issues and concerns known to them in a formal manner. Venting is sometimes good, but we already know the current ARRL band plan is voluntary, and the ARRL has already stated in an e-mail to Steve that the IARU band plan is voluntary. The FCC is our government agency dictating our amateur rules. As I see it, to comply with the revised Region 2 band plan, the general U. S. amateur radio population gains nothing and neither does the FCC. I would be hard to believe that any of these Region 2 countries have any real clout with the FCC, and we have already seen over the last few years how often the ARRL has been beaten down by the FCC.
Pete, wa2cwa On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:18:32 -0400 "Bry Carling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It just kmeans more and more unenforceable rules, unfortunately. > Most hams don't do a lot of the things we are technically supposed > to do to eccheck our signals now. > > Just as they are technically dumbing down hamdom, we have > all these rules about spectral purity etc. requiring > absurdly expensive test gear that most of us can't buy > and now they want to add more rules about bandwidth. > Sigh! > > > A friend of mine, WB8UTW, made a good point in an email to me: > > > > "I wonder how many SSB rigs will be non-compliant with the new > bandplan's 2.7 > > kHz bandwidth limit? I doubt any of my phasing SSB rigs will be > compliant and > > I thought filters on many older filtered rigs were 3 kc or more in > > > bandwidth." > > > > So is may be useful to point out that not only AM is threatened by > the IARU > > bandplan - vintage SSB is as well. > > > > Steve WD8DAS > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ************************************** > > See what's new at http://www.aol.com > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net > > AMRadio mailing list > > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with > > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net > AMRadio mailing list > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > > ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
