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

[manualman]

Unless they're ("radio and MV") operating in the repeater subbands, I
don't them having any problem. Of course, a real problem is, how do you
convince all the current repeater owners to trash their existing
equipment (especially if it's old stuff but still working well) and go
buy a repeater(s) that operate less then 15 kHz .

Actually, going back to your original concern, if nothing is done, your
"radio and MV" might be in more jeopardy from new narrowband pairs, since
they can't fit into the existing repeater subband, they probably would
tend to migrate to other parts of the band where you normally don't find
this stuff.

Pete, wa2cwa


On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:59:40 EDT WA5CAB at cs.com writes:
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




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