[CW] FCC Actions - OOOOPS?

[Donald Chester]

>For *phone* operation, you're correct.  The Generals finally got back what
>they lost way back then.  About time.
>
>But we weren't talking about phone.
>
>We were talking about the 150kHz of CW/rtty/data space that they lose if
>this R&O stands as written.

If the Generals had USED that 150kHz of CW/rtty/data space they wouldn't 
have lost it.  The change came about because the phone bands would become 
congested to the hilt while cw activity was 99% clustered into about a 20 
kHz segment somewhere near the bottom end of the band, and the rest of the 
non-voice portion remained virtually empty, except for maybe a few RTTY and 
other digital signals here and there.

Generals gained far more than they lost because they rarely if ever used 
that CW/rtty/data space anyway.

Don k4kyv