[CW] Band plan blues

[Bry Carling AF4K via CW]

I am glad Steve is speaking up about the "40m band plan."  I made my views known to ARRL 
(politely but firmly.)

Bry AF4K

Steve WD8DAS  writes:

Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:25 PM 
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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