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

[K0DAN]

"...study, research and consider developing  a plan..." does not mean any 
particular course of action will be recommended, nor does ARRL have force of 
law upon the FCC (altho they do have some degree of lobby leverage).

Actually "studying, researching, and considering" the topic is a good 
proactive approach, lest others who don't understand or care for the (USA) 
amateur perspective create some other momentum among national or 
international regulators. The creation of a committee could be a good 
step....and if your (our) wishes are to preserve the status quo, or AM, FM, 
various bandwdiths, or whatever, it behooves you/us to communicate our 
opinions in a rational/unemotional way to the committe (and eventually the 
FCC).

Nothing's gonna happen overnight. But it's another area of interest to keep 
one's eye on, and to be prepared to communicate one's interests to the study 
groups and the regulators.

Fact is, the rest of the USA is indeed going narrowband, via various modes, 
technolgies, and regulations. I don't know what the rest of the world is 
doing, but it wouldn't surpirse me there's a similar move afoot to conserve 
radio spectrum. It is proper to protect amateur radio's interest, both in 
the USA and internationally, and I too want to see AM/FM and other 
"wideband" modes preserved...but ya gotta be in the game to influence the 
outcome.

Dan
K0DAN


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "manualman" <manualman at juno.com>
To: <WA5CAB at cs.com>
Cc: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] [AMRadio] Fasten your seatbelts - here we go 
foranother AR...


> 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
>
>
>
>