[CW] ARRL BOD Jan. 19-20, 2001

[Ken Brown]

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>64. On motion of Mr. Frenaye, seconded by Mr. Stinson, it was VOTED that at
>the next practical opportunity the ARRL shall petition the FCC to revise
>Part 97 to regulate subbands by signal bandwidth instead of by mode.
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>This is GOOD.   It simply places all the digital narrow band signals, including cw, PSK, RTTY etc. in one subband, and the wide band stuff like SSB and SSTV in another , so they dont intefere with the narrow band signals.  
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This might be good, or it might be bad. "Subbands by signal bandwidth" 
is very non-specific. How many subbands? How big? How many different 
bandwidth subdivisions? Where are the lines drawn? This statement does 
not say.

I would be happy if half of the HF bands were reserved for under 100 Hz 
bandwidth mode(s), and the other half was for greater than 100 Hz 
bandwidth modes. I doubt that is how it would be divided though.
It seems that when changes have been made lately that have been done in 
unreasonable and destructive ways. There was no good reason to reduce 
the Extra code test speed to 5 WPM, even if 5 WPM for some license 
access to HF bands including phone priveleges was resonable. (I am not 
saying it was)

 If there were only one dividing line, say for instance at 1 kHz 
bandwidth, then CW operations would be stuck with all manner of 
completely incompatible digital modes, which would probably eventually 
include some kind of digital voice mode. The big money rig manufacturers 
would build this capability into all rigs, and anybody with the money to 
buy a new rig, could yak into a microphone anywhere in the "narrow" mode 
band.

If there were two dividing lines, say one at 100 Hz, and another at 1 
kHz, it might turn out okay.

DE N6KB


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