[CW] ARRL's Reply Comment re Baud Rate Petition

[Donald Chester]

From: pa0wv <pa0wv at amsat.org>


>>Why protect CW when CW is the best penetrating mode forever. Not the best
due to the 100 yr advancement of technology but due to the brains optimized
over a million years of the receiving person?

The SSB portion of the band is not to protect CW against SSB but to protect
SSB against CW. (and any other 2.5 kHz wide digital signal)

73
Wim PA0WV>>

We do not have a "SSB portion" in the US. It is a "phone" portion.  FM, DSB
AM and slow-scan TV are allowed as well.

It has been long debated whether or not we need mode sub-bands. Most
countries did away  with them decades ago, we have no sub-bands on 160m, and
for the most part we do just fine. But if 2.8 kHz data signals are to be
allowed inside the "protected" CW portions (CW is legal anywhere in the
band), the mode sub-bands will no longer serve any useful purpose and might
just as well be eliminated.

Don k4kyv



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