[CW] FCC Requests Comments on CW Allocation at 5 MHz

[Will White]

Some goods points made here, and I will hold off a few days, while mulling these
over, before I make my decision about whether to comment, and if so, what
position to take regarding sub-bands.

One question though: why is the FCC inclined to permitted full legal limit
output and all legal modes on 60-meters, when they restricted us to CW/data and
200W on 30-meters, which after all is another HF band that amateurs are
secondary users of and share with fixed and government services?

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Will White, KD7BFX
Seattle WA US
King County, Grid CN87tq
ITU Zone 6, CQ Zone 3
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Donald Chester wrote:

> I think we may be shooting ourselves in the foot if we make a big issue over
> subbands in the proposed 60-metre band.  First of all, from their remarks at
> the Dayton FCC Forum, the rulemakers DO NOT appear to be enthusiastic about
> the idea at all - preferring to let hams "work it out for themselves".
>
> To me, the most significant reason (not my idea; I read this from the
> comments already posted) to think twice about subbanding is that 60m. is to
> be a shared band with amateurs enjoying only the status as secondary users,
> on a non-interference basis with ship-to-shore and gov't fixed  services.
> Subbands by mode or licence class would limit our flexibility to QSY in
> order to dodge primary users of the band and avoid harmful interference,
> which would be a legal conditioun for our use of those frequencies.
>
> Once we get our foot in the door, and maybe achieve primary or at least
> co-primary status, we might then consider subbands if they seem desirable at
> that time; at present I think this is a trivial point.  We need to make the
> case for amateur use of the band as strong and unanimous as possible,
> without unnecessarily giving the opposition any ammunition to use against
> us.