Thanks, Paul, for digging out "the rest of the story".
From: VJB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
...Their decision, at their recent meeting in Croatia, was to continue to
avoid specifying any enumerated bandwidth for AM transmissions in the
layout of licensed hobbyist operating activity they help coordinate on the
HF bands.
The Region 1 delegates took action in precisely the manner U.S. licensees
had wanted their representative group to support during earlier Region 2
band planning deliberations...
Interesting, that there is no mention of this in the ARRL Letter news report
regarding the revised Region 1 band plan for 40m. The wording of their news
item leaves the distinct impression that the Plan recommends for all phone
emissions to be limited to 2700 Hz. This could be a simple oversight in
reporting, which would demonstrate at the very least the writer's dismissal
of the significance of the AM community in amateur radio, or it could have
been a deliberate omission, (sour grapes, maybe, or a subtle expression of
unstated League policy supporting the Region 2 decision), considering the
following:
...But, as many here should know, the ARRL contradicted this expressed
sentiment, and proposed specific bandwidth parameters. The numbers became
part of the revised Region 2 band plan now in effect.
The Region 2 charter calls on government regulatory bodies, including the
U.S., to adopt the voluntary protocols the IARU representative clubs
develop.
A Region 1 official, in explaining that it is a conscious decision NOT to
impose numerical bandwidth parameters on AM transmissions, said the
wording dates to 2005 at a regional meting in Switzerland, and was reached
IN AGREEMENT WITH AM GROUPS. (emphasis mine)
By contrast, the club that is supposed to represent all U.S. licensees at
the IARU failed to include "AM groups" in any manner, and, the record
shows, deliberately ignored requests to correct the League's misguided
approach taken in Brazil that led to the problem created for Region 2...
Don k4kyv
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