Salomao, There is no such thing as a scheduled transmission in the FCC rules.
No one operator or organization can be above the law. ARRL has discussed this in the past since they do receive some flak on this kind of operation. They know that they are really not operating in a fully legal manner and they are not following their own recommendations for good operating practices since they do not call QRL. They also have claimed that the W1AW operator listens on each frequency and can tweak the frequency if necessary. I am not sure if this is true or not and it would be very difficult to do this since they simulcast on some many frequencies at once. I would have expected that ARRL would have been given a special dispensation to operate in this manner, but they have not. I question how important these practice session and bulletins are anymore, but I do know of a ham or two that does get the bulletins and there are probably a few who use the practice. A reasonable accomodation would have been to only allow such stations to operate in the automatic sub bands. 73, Rick, KV9U Salomao Fresco wrote: > Hi! > > Bear in mind that W1AW transmissions are scheduled! > The ARRL assumes that most of the US Hams are aware of the scheduled > Bulletins. > > > Regards > > > On 12/13/06, kd4e <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> > I was parked on 3581 USB tonight and heard W1AW start up with CW. Not >> > a "QRL?" to be heard. I saw someone post somwthing about it not being >> > reaslistic to expect W1AW to actually listen first, because >> > they "broadcast" on many frequencies at the same time. The point make >> > sense, but it still seems weird to me that an ARRL station just fires >> > up, and off you go. Andy K3UK. >> >> It is dead wrong for the ARRL to do that and >> they know it. >> >> Lazy and inconsiderate are terms that come to >> mind. >> >> There is no excuse for anyone anywhere at any >> time to not listen, inquire and listen some >> more *prior* to transmitting. None. ARRL not >> exempted. >> >> Talk about "do as I say, not as I do". Now we >> can understand why the ARRL has so much trouble >> understanding why most Hams oppose automatic/ >> unattended digital modes QRMing all over Ham >> spectrum -- they do it themsleves! >> >> Sigh. >> >> -- >>
