[CW] Two New Amateur Bands

Fri Mar 31 20:43:20 EDT 2017

With this FCC and administration, we are going to be the losers, in new decisions.  Big Business is already winning.

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> On March 31, 2017 at 4:06 PM "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:
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>     The Rules become effective in 60 days.
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>     See below - 73 de N1EA
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>     FCC Issues Amateur Radio Service Rules for 630 Meters and 2,200 Meters:
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>     from The ARRL Letter on March 30, 2017
>     View comments about this article! http://www.eham.net/articles/38932#comments
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>     New Bands! FCC Issues Amateur Radio Service Rules for 630 Meters and 2,200 Meters:
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>     The Amateur Service will officially get two new bands in the near future. The FCC has adopted rules that will allow Amateur Radio access to the 630 and 2,200-meter bands, with minor conditions. A Report and Order (R&O https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-17-33A1.pdf https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-17-33A1.pdf ) was released on March 29. The new rules become effective 30 days following publication in The Federal Register. The R&O, which also addresses several non-Amateur Radio issues, allocates the 472-479 kHz band (630 meters) to the Amateur Service on a secondary basis and amends Part 97 to provide for Amateur Service use of that band as well as of the previously allocated 135.7-137.8 kHz band (2,200 meters). The R&O also amends Part 80 rules to authorize radio buoy operations in the 1900-2000 kHz band under a ship station license.
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>     "It's a big win for the Amateur community and the ARRL," ARRL CEO Tom Gallagher, NY2RF, said. "We are excited by the FCC's action to authorize Amateur Radio access for the first time on the MF and LF spectrum."
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>     The FCC said the Amateur Radio service rules it has adopted for 630 meters and 2,200 meters allow "for co-existence with Power Line Carrier (PLC) systems that use these bands." Utilities have opposed Amateur Radio use of the MF and LF spectrum, fearing interference to unlicensed Part 15 PLC systems used to manage the power grid.
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>     Amateurs operating on 472-479 kHz would be permitted a maximum equivalent isotropically radiated power (EIRP) of 5 W, except in parts of Alaska within 800 kilometers (approximately 496 miles) of Russia, where the maximum would be 1 W EIRP. Amateurs operating in the 135.7-137.8 kHz band could run up to 1 W EIRP.
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>     The FCC is requiring a 1-kilometer separation distance between radio amateurs using the two new bands and electric power transmission lines with PLC systems on those bands. Amateur Radio operators will have to notify UTC of station location prior to commencing operations.
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>     The FCC also placed a 60-meter (approximately 197 feet) above-ground-level (AGL) height limit on transmitting antennas used on 630 meters and 2,200 meters. The bands would be available to General class and higher licensees, and permissible modes would include CW, RTTY, data, phone, and image. Automatically controlled stations would be permitted to operate in the bands. More details soon, on the ARRL website.
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>     The ARRL Letter
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>     FCC Issues Amateur Radio Service Rules for 630 Meters and 2,
>      http://www.eham.net/forums/post/Articles/238610
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>     Reply http://www.eham.net/forums/post/Articles/238610 by W7ASA http://www.eham.net/user/profile/W7ASA on March 30, 2017 Mail this to a friend! http://www.eham.net/forums/mailto/1?id=238610
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>     So, the 600 meter,7 KHz wide "BAND" is going to be a huge disappointment under these conditions:
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>     " ...permissible modes would include CW, RTTY, data, phone, and image. Automatically controlled stations..."
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>     ATTENTION ARRL - Narrow segments should be for narrow modes, so that more than one station can operate at a time. Voice or automatic & highspeed data will kill this.
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>     What a shame -
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>     >Ray
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>     RE: FCC Issues Amateur Radio Service Rules for 630 Meters an 	Reply http://www.eham.net/forums/post/Articles/238611
>     by W1ITT http://www.eham.net/user/profile/W1ITT on March 31, 2017 	 Mail this to a friend! http://www.eham.net/forums/mailto/1?id=238611
>     Power Line Carrier, PLC, has operated under Part 15 unlicensed service. This FCC order is both historic and troubling, in that it is the first time that a Part 15 service has been legally protected from interference by a licensed service (Amateur Radio). How long will it be until some other unlicensed "service" will demand protection from legitimately licensed operations? The essence of the Part 15 concessions is that, in exchange for not having to be licensed, one accepts the possibility of interference without recourse.
>     I'm happy that we got a couple of new allocations, but the FCC got this wrong, and the ARRL was too eager to agree to conditions that may well come back to bite us.
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>     RE: FCC Issues Amateur Radio Service Rules for 630 Meters an Reply http://www.eham.net/forums/post/Articles/238612 by KK5JY http://www.eham.net/user/profile/KK5JY on March 31, 2017 Mail this to a friend! http://www.eham.net/forums/mailto/1?id=238612 >> This FCC order is both historic and troubling, in that it is the first time that a Part 15 service has been legally protected from interference by a licensed service (Amateur Radio). How long will it be until some other unlicensed "service" will demand protection from legitimately licensed operations? <<
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>     And not only that, but those wishing to operate on these bands have to preregister their transmitter locations, so if there is ever interference, their QTH will be the first ones visited, regardless of the actual source of the QRM. Further, they are assuming that within 1km, the probability of QRM is too high to even allow the parties to try to coexist.
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>     This is just another 60m. The rules are so silly and limiting that the band is essentially useless to all but the most patient and aggressive QRPers, who also happen to live a long distance away from power lines.
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>     I really don't mind ARRL's approach of getting a foothold in a new band first, then after some number of years, getting expanded privileges based on good behavior of the ops. That said, we don't seem to be making a lot of progress on that front. 60m is still a mess, and the new ARRL plan for 60m is even messier. And the R&O that is the subject of this thread included a new allocation for QRM sources in the top half of 160m. That's backwards. Let the radio buoys operate somewhere else. What's wrong with the 100kHz *above* 2MHz? If ARRL is going to continue this policy of incremental band acquisition, they need to follow through and actually get incremental improvements to the bands. 
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>     DR
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