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
In reviewing comments made about the FCC changes, one thing that kept popping
up was that the FCC allocated more (sometimes much more) space for voice
operations than was initially asked for.
For example, the original ARRL proposal was for an extra 25 kHz of phone on 75.
The original FCC NPRM
Ron, as a former Federal employee (US Army, US Natl Park Service), I think I
can state you've put your finger on the FCC game plan. They don't like
surprises and are fairly certain we don't like surprises, so they're gonna ease
us into the notion that we're gonna have to learn to live without
