[Boatanchors] [AMRadio] Fasten your seatbelts - here we go for another AR...

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

OK.  But that just moves the problem the League would be causing to two 
other groups of collectors (radio and MV).  Collectible VHF military sets are 
all either AM or wide band FM.

In a message dated 9/23/2009 10:39:26 PM Central Daylight Time, 
manualman at juno.com writes: 
> You obviously either ignored, or didn't read, the actual article and the
> section that referred to this activity and just read the summary.
> 
> It really said: "The Board approved the "establishment of a Study
> Committee to study, research and consider developing  a plan to move the
> US amateur community to narrowband channel spacing in the VHF/UHF bands.
> The Board felt that since the FCC has mandated that commercial radio move
> to narrowband channels by 2013, those companies that manufacturer Amateur
> Radio equipment usually follow commercial practice. The VHF/UHF bandplan
> currently use 15 and 20 kHz FM channels. Amateurs are using narrowband
> equipment outside the repeater sub-band because there is no real place to
> fit narrowband pairs."
> 
> None of this has anything to do with our typical HF operations. It's not
> clear that even the upper end of 10 meters, where there is FM operation
> and repeaters, is even included in the study, since "VHF" generally
> starts above 30 mHz.
> 
> Pete, wa2cwa
> 
> 

Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480