[CW] ARRL Band Plan

[Steve WD8DAS via CW]

I am very uncomfortable with the whole business of unofficial ARRL and IARU bandplans and how they seem to "morph" into eventual official rules and regulations.  I feel these plans actually create more conflict among operators and really only serve to make control freaks happier.  I would prefer no such stuff and would let the operations naturally cluster as they will.

But we now have both unofficial bandplans and official rules and regulations telling us where we can operate various modes, so I choose to make my opinions known.  

The current ARRL proposal would increase the sub band for RTTY and other digital teleprinter modes on 40m to 7070 - 7125 kHz and carve out a special place for wider digital modes in the range 7115 - 7125 kHz.

http://www.arrl.org/files/file/About%20ARRL/Committee%20Reports/2015/January/SUMNER%20QS4.pdf

Yes we could still operate CW there but if this plan moves ahead you can expect new QRM from digital operations.



Steve WD8DAS

sbjohnston at aol.com
http://www.wd8das.net/
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