[CW] FW: [AMRadio] BPL

Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:59:13 -0500

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Donald Chester
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 11:31 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] BPL

>From: "David Knepper" <[email protected]>

>Patrick, the FCC could do everyone a "favor" by opening up the 80 meter
>band
>to voice communications.  The only time that I hear CW from 3500 to 3700 is
>when there is a contest!

I hear a  little CW on 3500-3560, and  a couple of digital sigs above 3560.
Sometimes a couple of stations in the novice segment.  But the freqs are
mostly vacant.

I propose that they simply eliminate subbands as they have in Canada,  but
if CW and digital modes need protection from wideband QRM,  the reserved
segment should be reduced to 3500-3550 or 3575  - with a similar reduction
on 40m.  I work a substantial amount of CW in addition to AM (no SSB), and
IMO CW operation would be better if activity were concentrated in a smaller
space.  With the   75A-4 in 300 Hz bandwidth, it is easy to overlook a lone
cw signal out of all the vacant kc's per dial rotation.

>From: Patrick Jankowiak <[email protected]>
>
> >I have dusted off the ancient and crufty tomes, and quoted Frederick
> >E. Terman, George E. Sterling, William I. Orr, among other luminaries,
> >to the FCC.. If invoking the elder gods not scare the devil out of
> >them, we have a lost cause. To summarize the writings of these
> >esteemed scholars and engineers, the minimum bandwidth for
> >understandability required is +/- 2700Hz, and for a communications
> >quality signal, 3000-3500 Hz. High quality is defined at 4KHz.
> >
> >Let those two whiners, who dared to drag AM into a slopbucket problem,
> >put that in their pipes and smoke it.
> >
> >I've also posted another comment.

I found your comment on the ECFS site.  I copied your excerpts and posted on
the AM Window Bulletin Board.  If you are not familiar with the board, the
URL is:

http://www.amwindow.org/wwwboard/wwwboard.html

I hope you have better results than I  did with your links.  I gained access
to the message by going thru the FCC web site.  Both links always give me an
error message.  I tried copying and pasting the URL into the address box -
same result.

Don K4KYV

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