The ARRL withdrew its "regulation by bandwidth instead of mode" proposal
before the FCC responded. This proposal generated a lot of commentary from
the US amateur community, all of which remains available online. If you
review these, you will find that most comments opposing the proposal cited
the QRM caused by unattended digital stations, whose permitted range would
have been dramatically increased had the proposal been adopted.
Opposition to this proposal was "anti-QRM", not "anti-wide". An unattended
station running a narrow mode without an effective busy frequency detector
is as offensive as an unattended station running a wide mode without an
effective busy frequency detector; neither belongs on the amateur bands.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on
Behalf Of "John Becker, WOJAB"
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 2:10 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: AW: AW: [digitalradio] Operating ROS In USA
At 12:19 PM 7/20/2010, you wrote:
>Do you know if any US amateurs are raising a Petition for Rulemaking to
move to regulation by bandwidth instead of mode ?
Trevor,
We in the USA have been down this path before.
And every time the FCC has said the same thing.
I really don't know just where you are trying to go
but it seems that it is again an "anti wide" rant.
If it is you can save the rest of us from it.
John, W0JAB
