>>>AA6YQ comments below
--- In [email protected], "John Champa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dave,
Again, these are all good points, and I will forward them onto my
Director. However, I don't think there are any satisfactory answers
to the issues.
>>>Please explain why enforcing §97.101 sections b and d isn't a
satisfactory answer to the issue of QRM from semi-automatic stations:
§97.101(b): "Each station licensee and each control operator must
cooperate in selecting transmitting channels and in making the most
effective use of the amateur service frequencies. No frequency will
be assigned for the exclusive use of any station."
§97.101(d): "No amateur operator shall willfully or maliciously
interfere with or cause interference to any radio communication or
signal."
>>>Each time a WinLink PMBO transmits on a frequency that's already
in use, its operator is violating §97.101. The interference is not
malicious, but it is clearly willful.
>>>An announcement from the ARRL stating that they will not support
any semi-automatic system that violates §97.101 would provide the
incentive required for the WinLink organization to immediately
incorporate busy frequency detection in their PMBOs -- particularly
if this announcement contained an appropriately supportive quote from
the FCC's Hollingsworth.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
