--- On Mon, 22/2/10, expeditionradio <[email protected]> wrote:
> Several years ago, there was a proposal to FCC to provide
> regulation by bandwidth rather than content. However, it
> failed to be adopted, and ARRL's petition to limit bandwidth
> was withdrawn
And the irony is that in 1977 (33 years ago!) the FCC itself proposed band
planning by bandwidth with segments for 350 Hz, 3.5 kHz and 7.5 kHz. At the
time the ARRL bitterly opposed it and the FCC withdrew the proposal.
However, there may be scope in interpretation of the regs. Up until a few years
ago many US amateurs were under the impression that you could only send a
maximum of 300 bits per second on HF. What the rules actually specified was a
maximum symbol rate of 300 Baud and, probably because no had thought to do so,
there was no limit specified on the number of carriers you could transmit.
That's how these days US hams can run digital voice/sstv.
So it's down to interpretation and it'll hinge on the FCC's formal definition
of Spread Spectrum with luck ROS will fall outside of it.
Does anybody plan to contact the FCC this morning to get their view ?
73 Trevor M5AKA
