[AMRadio] BPL

[Donald Chester]

>From: "David Knepper" <cra at floodcity.net>

>Patrick, the FCC could do everyone a "favor" by opening up the 80 meter 
>band
>to voice communications.  The only time that I hear CW from 3500 to 3700 is
>when there is a contest!

I hear a  little CW on 3500-3560, and  a couple of digital sigs above 3560. 
Sometimes a couple of stations in the novice segment.  But the freqs are 
mostly vacant.

I propose that they simply eliminate subbands as they have in Canada,  but 
if CW and digital modes need protection from wideband QRM,  the reserved 
segment should be reduced to 3500-3550 or 3575  - with a similar reduction 
on 40m.  I work a substantial amount of CW in addition to AM (no SSB), and 
IMO CW operation would be better if activity were concentrated in a smaller 
space.  With the   75A-4 in 300 Hz bandwidth, it is easy to overlook a lone 
cw signal out of all the vacant kc's per dial rotation.

>From: Patrick Jankowiak <eccm at swbell.net>
>
> >I have dusted off the ancient and crufty tomes, and quoted Frederick
> >E. Terman, George E. Sterling, William I. Orr, among other luminaries,
> >to the FCC.. If invoking the elder gods not scare the devil out of
> >them, we have a lost cause. To summarize the writings of these
> >esteemed scholars and engineers, the minimum bandwidth for
> >understandability required is +/- 2700Hz, and for a communications
> >quality signal, 3000-3500 Hz. High quality is defined at 4KHz.
> >
> >Let those two whiners, who dared to drag AM into a slopbucket problem,
> >put that in their pipes and smoke it.
> >
> >I've also posted another comment.

I found your comment on the ECFS site.  I copied your excerpts and posted on 
the AM Window Bulletin Board.  If you are not familiar with the board, the 
URL is:

http://www.amwindow.org/wwwboard/wwwboard.html

I hope you have better results than I  did with your links.  I gained access 
to the message by going thru the FCC web site.  Both links always give me an 
error message.  I tried copying and pasting the URL into the address box - 
same result.

Don K4KYV

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