[Boatanchors] ARRL Band Plan

[W2HX]

For many hams (and more every year), even the CWID is undecipherable. Maybe a phone identification (like a pre-recorded call sign). In fact, for many hams under the age of 35 (yes they exist) a digital ID is probably more easily deciphered than a CW ID!

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From: Boatanchors [mailto:boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Rob Atkinson
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2015 12:45 PM
To: Boat Anchors List
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] ARRL Band Plan

Here is my response to the ARRL's bandplan proposal.  I urge all to call for the complete separation of modern high speed digital emissions, or the reinstatement of the CW ID requirement.  Currently since I am unable to identify any noise falling in my receiver passband, I ignore it as it is an unidentified emission:

ARRL's band planning fails to address the basic incompatibility between high speed data and analog transmission modes.  Calling an allocation "phone/image" does not solve any problems and since the ARRL's proposal does not address the problem of data "image" etc.
transmissions' flawed integration in the analog phone segments, I will be against the proposals.

You cannot have modern high speed digital emissions along side or on top of analog transmissions and not experience difficulties.  It is true that amateurs must accept interference according to FCC, but it is desirable to avoid it with simple practical band plans.

Currently, operators who lack modern data processing equipment are unable to even identify incompetent or malicious operators since there is no longer a CW identification requirement.

Therefore, digital transmissions must be quarantined in their own sub-band, including the "image" modes in the analog phone segments, or
the CW identification requirement must be reinstated.   Such an ID
might be 30 wpm CW at the tail end of a digital transmission, which would not disrupt the data exchange and could be programmed in with modern software.

Rob
K5UJ

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 11:19 AM,  <oldradio at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Here's another point of view worth reading.
>
>    http://wireless-girl.com/ARRLletter.html
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