Re: [digitalradio] Re: ROS operating frequencies on 20m

[Rik van Riel]

On 03/04/2010 09:10 PM, pd4u_dares wrote:

 All wouldn't have happened if it was not claimed by some that ROS is illegaal 
 in the US. Since there is no official publication on this by the FCC, ROS is 
 neither legal nor illegal. So the first claim by some users of ROS was in 
 error. Jose's subsequent claiom too.

The FCC statement was quite clear: the responsibility of determining
whether or not ROS is allowed under the rules lies with each amateur
radio operator.

Claims made by Jose or others do not absolve amateur radio operators
of the responsibility of making that determination themselves.

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Re: [digitalradio] Re: ROS operating frequencies on 20m

[Rik van Riel]

On 03/04/2010 07:44 AM, g4ilo wrote:
 I thought you were in Region 2. I have the Region 2 band plan in front of me 
 right off the IARU site and it definitely says All Modes in all of the 
 sections right up to 14.350. I don't see any division at 14.150 at all. In 
 any case, I don't think you'd need to go as far even as 14.150 to find a 
 frequency that hasn't been designated for use by some other modes.

The US band plans are a little more restrictive than the
Region 2 plan.

I do not know why that was done, but it does give the
smaller countries some empty frequencies so it seems
to be beneficial overall.  The US probably has more
hams than the other Region 2 countries together.

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Re: [digitalradio] Re: ROS operating frequencies on 20m

[KH6TY]

Julian, the problem is that the FCC regulations we live under are often 
more strict than the IARU bandplans. Under those regulations, RTTY/Data 
stops at 14.150.


Furthermore, the IARU band plans are only recommendations for member 
organizations. The FCC regulations are laws we MUST follow.


While this may seem unfair in some cases (often to everyone!) it is 
actually the FCC restriction on unattended operations to certain band 
segments that have kept the unattended stations from covering all the HF 
bands with Pactor-II and Pactor-III, which they would dearly like to do, 
so they would never have interference from one of their own kind. All 
modes, with no other legally-enforceable restrictions, would be a 
disaster for all our HF activities. The problem with recommendations 
is that they are only suggestions, so there are those who do not agree 
with the recommendations and just do what and where they wish. US 
amateurs, since they are governed instead by laws, face license 
revocation or fines if they consistently flaunt the laws.


73 - Skip KH6TY




g4ilo wrote:
 

I thought you were in Region 2. I have the Region 2 band plan in front 
of me right off the IARU site and it definitely says All Modes in all 
of the sections right up to 14.350. I don't see any division at 14.150 
at all. In any case, I don't think you'd need to go as far even as 
14.150 to find a frequency that hasn't been designated for use by some 
other modes.


Julian, G4ILO

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mailto:digitalradio%40yahoogroups.com, KH6TY kh...@... wrote:


 Julian,

 In the US, the RTTY/data segment of 20m stops at 14.150.