[AMRadio] Band Plan

[donroden at hiwaay.net]

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email, maybe they can't afford that 100 foot yacht.

Don W4DNR



Quoting Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>:

> The IARU is a paper international body that is just an extension of
> the ARRL and other ARRL facsimiles in other countries.  They like to
> look like they are part of the ITU with "international" and "union" in
> their name but don't let that fool you--they have zero official
> standing as any treaty forming UN type body and can only watch and
> offer opinions.   They have these confabs where ARRL stuffed shirts
> toddle off to gather and gas about ways of turning their bandwidth
> derangement into reality and they can produce band plans until pigs
> fly but it doesn't mean doo doo because the FCC is where the rubber
> meets the road.   But they keep trying by framing their band plan in
> the guise of "this is what other countries are doing and you should
> conform..."
>
> We need to be vigilant and really weigh in with the FCC if any of
> their 6 KC dreams and other nonsense manage to wind up in some
> official FCC docket.  Of course it doesn't hurt to pound away on the
> ARRL but they'll probably ignore us.
>
> 73
>
> Rob
> K5UJ
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:12 PM,  <w5jo at brightok.net> wrote:
>> The ARRL is asking for comments about the upcoming IARU region 2 band plan
>> proposal.
>>
>> AM is mentioned in the plan and bandwidth is set at 6 Kc.  Here is a link to
>> the IARU website with a download of the plan.  Those interested can take a
>> look and it would be good if we all started to work on the ARRL now.  You
>> are aware they have filed a proposal to shrink the 80 meter phone privileges
>> and give the space to digital.  No one can really tell why they are doing
>> that given the lack of activity on the current digital space.  If you look
>> at the table there is no mention of AM specifically, only in the definitions
>> and is placed under "all modes".
>>
>> So to, maybe, have a positive impact on the proposal,we must start early.
>>
>> http://www.iaru-r2.org/band-plan/
>>
>> http://www.arrl.org/news/view/arrl-hf-band-planning-committee-seeks-suggestions-on-iaru-region-2-hf-band-plan
>>
>> Jim
>> W5JO
>>
>>
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