> ARRL Withdraws "Regulation by Bandwidth" Petition Although this might delay USA hams' release from Technology Jail, perhaps it will lead to the development of a better bandwidth-based spectrum management plan, without the need for "AM phone loophole contortions", ridiculously narrow 200Hz bandwidth segments, voice-prohibition bands, or data-prohibition bands.
Perhaps this will also lead to more reasonable HF Automatic Subbands that could work toward pleasing "both sides of the aisle" such as: 1980-2000 kHz 3575-3630 kHz 7100-7125 kHz 10135-10150 kHz 14100-14125 kHz 18080-18110 kHz 21100-21150 kHz 24900-24930 kHz 28100-28200 kHz It would be good to see band segmentation at more reasonable power/bandwidths (necessary bandwidth): 500Hz at 1.5kW PEP Transmitter Power 3kHz at 1.5kW PEP Transmitter Power 5kHz at 100W PEP Effective Radiated Power in the General SubBands 10kHz at 100W PEP Effective Radiated Power in the Extra SubBands 500Hz Bandwidth limitation is not needed on some bands, but it would be helpful on 80-17m bands. Some suggestions for 500Hz SubBand segmentation: 3500-3535 kHz 7000-7025 kHz 10100-10115 kHz 14000-14025 kHz 18068-18075 kHz This could go along with a reduction of the Extra-only segments at the bottom of the 80m and 40m bands to: 3500-3510 kHz 7000-7010 kHz -- 73---Bonnie KQ6XA (Trying out the new Nomex catsuit)
