Boy Manual Man, you sure are right - I'm just another of those dummies that doesn't read every word like you guys that have business that service ham radio. I just have concern about the true intentions of the folks running the ARRL after their earlier attempts to change the ham radio world. I stand corrected - mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. 73 Mac WQ8U Hillsborough, NC
--- On Wed, 9/23/09, manualman <[email protected]> wrote: > From: manualman <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Fasten your seatbelts - here we go for another ARRL > ride > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 11:37 PM > You obviously either ignored, or > didn't read, the actual article and the > section that referred to this activity and just read the > summary. > > It really said: "The Board approved the "establishment of a > Study > Committee to study, research and consider developing > a plan to move the > US amateur community to narrowband channel spacing in the > VHF/UHF bands. > The Board felt that since the FCC has mandated that > commercial radio move > to narrowband channels by 2013, those companies that > manufacturer Amateur > Radio equipment usually follow commercial practice. The > VHF/UHF bandplan > currently use 15 and 20 kHz FM channels. Amateurs are using > narrowband > equipment outside the repeater sub-band because there is no > real place to > fit narrowband pairs." > > None of this has anything to do with our typical HF > operations. It's not > clear that even the upper end of 10 meters, where there is > FM operation > and repeaters, is even included in the study, since "VHF" > generally > starts above 30 mHz. > > Pete, wa2cwa > > > On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:47:07 -0700 (PDT) "J.D. MacAulay, > WQ8U" > <[email protected]> > writes: > > The October 2009 QST magazine, page 64, reports the > actions of the > > 2009 second meeting of the ARRL Board. > > > > The Board approved the "establishment of a Study > Committee to study, > > research and consider developing a > > PLAN TO MOVE THE US AMATEUR COMMUNITY TO NARROWBAND > CHANNEL > > SPACING." (Emphasis mine) > > > > One has to wonder who those folks really represent > after their > > performance with the frequency allocation by signal > bandwidth push > > and now this. > > > > Maybe all us AM Ops will be dead by the time their > buracuracy gets > > through all this process. - probably not though. > > > > > Time to start writing to Newington? > > > > 73 > > Mac > > WQ8U > > Hillsborough, NC > ______________________________________________________________ > Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net > AMRadio mailing list > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Post: [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] > with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
