I meant any frequency where RTTY/data is allowed. The objection that people had then seems to be that a wider bandwidth was allowed for semi-automatic stations in the proposed 3 kHz bandwidth segments.
However, the proposed rules would have pushed the wideband semi-automatic stations up in frequency and out of the areas where people were complaining of interference to narrowband RTTY/data QSOs. They also allowed RTTY/data QSOs to occur anywhere in the band which would seem to provide even more flexibility to avoid interference. I liked this feature of the proposal. 73, John KD6OZH ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave AA6YQ To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 08:54 UTC Subject: RE: [digitalradio] Re: Why would anyone Your assertion below that current rules allow an automatic station to operate on any frequency is incorrect. See §97.221 http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/news/part97/c.html#221 With a bandwidth of 500 hz or less, such stations can can only operate wherever RTTY or data emissions are authorized. With a bandwidth of more than 500 hz, such stations are limited to the sub-bands enumerated in §97.221(b). 73, Dave, AA6YQ -----Original Message----- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com]on Behalf Of John B. Stephensen Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 4:30 AM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: Why would anyone I just reread it and it seems to be more restrictive than the current rules. The current rules establish segments for automatic forwarding between digital stations on all HF bands and these were eliminated below 28 MHz in the ARRL proposal. The current rules allow for an automatic station that only responds to queries by a manually-controlled station to operate on any frequency and that was unchanged in the ARRL proposal. 73, John KD6OZH ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave AA6YQ To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 07:48 UTC Subject: RE: [digitalradio] Re: Why would anyone Had the ARRL's "regulation by bandwidth" proposal been accepted, the range of frequencies available to automatic stations without busy frequency detectors would have significantly increased, which was why so many amateurs opposed it, which was why the ARRL abandoned it. 73, Dave, AA6YQ