[AMRadio] Web page appears in opposition to RM-11305

[bud chiller]

Yes Don.. I failed to make that IARU distinction.
however, the Commission has sighted the IARU
conference of 2002 as a goal and as such I believe
rulings will be toward that end. 
Just one man's thought !!

See IARU HFC-C4, 13 November 2002



--- Donald Chester <k4kyv at hotmail.com> wrote:

> >From: "Brian Carling" <bcarling at cfl.rr.com>
> 
> >On 16 Jan 2006 at 11:22, bud chiller wrote:
> >
> > >  IARU does not
> > > allow phone emissions below 7050Khz in region 2!
> >
> >I am just trying to understand all of this...
> >Why do we have Canadian and Mexican SSB signals all
> >over 7030 - 7060 kHz NOW if they are not allowed to
> do it?
> >
> >We're drifting downward in frequency here from AM
> concerns
> >I know, but it IS related for those of us who work
> both AM AND
> >CW.
> 
> 
> The IARU band plan say no phone below 7050. 
> Obviously the Canadian and 
> Mexican hams, plus who knows what other countries
> south of the border, are 
> not following the plan.  The IARU does not have any
> enforcement power.  The 
> band plan is merely a suggestion, not a legal
> restriction.  Canada and (I 
> assume) Mexico have no emission subband limitations;
> they can legally 
> transmit phone all the way down to 7000.  The US is
> the only country in the 
> region (and is suspect the world) that PROHIBITS
> phone below 7150.
> 
> Another aspect of the problem is the US licence
> class subband structure.  
> 7000-7025 is limited to extra class only, so
> non-extra US hams can work cw 
> only from 7025 up, and the cw activity rarely goes
> above 7040 or 7050, so 
> for all practical purposes US Advanced and General
> class ops are limited to 
> a very narrow segment just above 7025 for cw
> operation.
> 
> Since the US Extra class cw requirement has been
> reduced to the 5 wpm Novice 
> level, and there is no longer any distinction in the
> code requirement for 
> Extra, Advanced, General or Novice, what is the
> point of continuing to set 
> aside an exclusive 25 kc/s segment for Extra class
> cw?
> 
> In Region 1 (Europe) the entire 40m band is only
> 7000-7100, except for some 
> recently opened limited use of 7100-7200.  Hopefully
> the broacast issue we 
> be resolved and 7100-7200 will eventually become
> exclusive amateur 
> worldwide.
> 
> -k4kyv
> 
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