At 02:00 PM 10/13/06, Ron Notarius W3WN wrote:
My suspicion... and this is only idle speculation at this point
based on an extrapolation of the data at hand... is that at some
point in the next 6 to 18 months, the other shoe is going to
drop. Namely, the long awaited and anticipated (pro or con) removal
of Element 1 as a requirement for HF access.
If that were the case then why only the big expansion over what had
been requested and originally proposed by the FCC on 80m/75m and not
on 15m or 40m as well? The changes on those bands are identical to
the ARRL petition and NPRM. If the changes to 75m were made for the
reason that you suggest wouldn't in also be be anticipated that
those other bands would get just as crowded as well?
Perhaps the FCC decided this way because a significant fraction of
the individuals who expressed a need for bigger phone bands only
commented on expanding the 75m phone band.
The rule changes as proposed by the FCC were fairly
non-controversial. As a result the NPRM only received a total of 163
comments and replies. That's extremely small in comparison to other
recent proceedings dealing with amateur radio.
If it had been know or suspected that the FCC was contemplating as
drastic a change as ended up being made, I suspect both the volume
and perhaps the composition of the comments would have been quite different.
73,
Mike K1MK
Michael Keane K1MK
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