[AMRadio] Speak now or for ever hold your peace.

[Donald Chester]

Checking the FCC's Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS), I see that the 
contesters have overwhelmingly "stuffed the ballot box" in favor of 
RM-10352, the petition to establish FCC-mandated emission subbands on 160 
metres. Of over 350 comments, only a half dozen or so have expressed 
opposition. Most of the rest have rubber-stamped this bogus petition.

Time is running out. If you don't think subbands on 160 would be a good 
idea, GET YOUR COMMENTS OUT TODAY! There are only 3 days left. Is there 
really enough CW operation on 160 to justify 43 khz of exclusive band? In 
over 20 years of using this band since LORAN-A was taken off, I have heard 
phone stations on the low end maybe 2 or 3 times, except during CONTESTS.

What I am seeing here is a proposed solution for a nonexistent problem... Or 
is the "problem" CONTESTS, not the mixing of modes? The contest committees 
need to be strongly encouraged to declare certain parts of the bands 
off-limits to contesting so non-contesters can operate ham radio on contest 
weekends too.

Let the FCC know that the pro-subband people are not unanimous amongst 160M 
operators. Go to the following site: FCC Comments Page, 
http://www.fcc.gov/e-file/ecfs.html.

Don, K4KYV


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