Most likely, he's referring to RM-11392. I believe "public notice" was issued in August 2007. There are over 600 comments to this proposal on the FCC site.
Pete, wa2cwa http://www.manualman.com On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:24:26 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > In the ARRL Great Lakes Division newsletter from Director Jim > Weaver, > K8JE, there was the following interesting item: an announcement of > a > new petition to the FCC for regulation-by-bandwidth. I'm not > familiar > with it - bears further investigation. > > > +++++++++ Regulation by Bandwidth +++++++++ > > > By now you've probably heard there is a petition before the FCC that > I > > understand would bring a form of Regulation by Bandwidth to the US. > > Before anyone jumps to the wrong conclusion, this petition was > neither > > developed nor is it supported by ARRL. > > > How can I be sure of this? I would have had to vote on a motion to > > develop or to support the proposal. This had not happened and is > not > > scheduled to happen at our Board meeting next week. > > > So far as Regulation by Bandwidth is concerned, I've made the > following > > statement in a number of ways, but I will make it as a straight > forward > > promise to you. I will not vote in favor of a motion to support > > Regulation by Bandwidth until the time comes that its provisions > are > > thoroughly understood by you and you support the idea. > > > Regardless, of my personal conclusion, I do not believe regulating > by > > bandwidth offers sufficient benefit at this time to warrant > supporting > > it. > > > One additional item is that I continue and will continue to support > the > > availability of all now-legal modes of amateur operation. If the > mode > > is legal today, I will continue to support its availability for > amateur > > use. Jim Weaver, K8JE > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > Steve WD8DAS > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.wd8das.net/ ______________________________________________________________ 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.
