Beacons are allocated space in all three IARU regional band plans.
This is as much to protect live operators from being QRM'd by beacons
as it is to protect beacon users from QRM from live operators.
Given that the beacons don't have busy frequency detectors and
pragmatically couldn't QSY even if they did, the 1 KHz per band
beacon allocations seem like a reasonable solution to me. And since
these allocations are incorporated in the IARU band plan governing my
region then I ought to comply whether or not I personally think its
reasonable.
So my longwinded answer to your question, Bill, is the human operator
is at fault, as he or she is ignoring the band plan.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
--- In [email protected], Bill Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
>
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:40:54 -0700, Chris Jewell
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Whether the FCC (and other national administrations) treat
violating
> >an IARU Region band plan as violating the "good amateur practice"
> >provision of the rules is unclear to me. However, an OO notice,
even
> >if not an FCC citation and fine, does seem (IMHO) appropriate for
> >violating the band plan.
>
> ------------ REPLY FOLLOWS ------------
>
> Anybody, including you, me or the IARU can set up a band plan. Only
if
> it is adopted by the FCC or your country's equivalent does it become
> enforceable.
>
> How about this scenario:
>
> Station A listens on 14.100 and hears nothing.
> Station A sends QRL? a couple of times and receives no response.
> Station A calls CQ and shortly thereafter is jammed by a beacon.
>
> Which station is at fault?
>
> Bill, W6WRT
>
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