I'm not sure I follow this argument. The fundamental problem is that, within the area allocated for digital modes, there is not enough space for many simultaneous contacts to take place using a 2.2kHz wide mode. This has not hitherto been much of a problem because until now there has not been much demand for using wide band digital modes. People live with interference from Pactor etc. because it comes in bursts and does not completely wreck a QSO.
If "hordes of operators wanted to use ROS" then without the ability for them to expand upward in frequency the digital modes sub band would become unusable for anything else. All your current legislation does is protect the phone users from interference by other modes and make digital users second class citizens confined to a ghetto where "anything goes". Julian, G4ILO --- In [email protected], KH6TY <kh...@...> wrote: > > Imagine also if spread spectrum were allowed anywhere in the current > phone and upper data segments. The complaints about NCDXF and Olivia QRM > from ROS would be nothing compared to what it is already if spread > spectrum were allowed anywhere in the same bandwidth as phone, and > hordes of operators wanted to use ROS, and not just a relative few.
