[FADCA] Robots everywhere soon

[David Calder]

Here you go.

ARRL wants to let Email Robots cover the phone bands. 

In the ARRL "bandwidth" petition, RM-11306, Pactor-III Email robots, 2.4 KHz
wide (requiring a channel width of 2.5 KHz), are allowed everywhere phone is
allowed, which is 14100 to 14350 KHz. 

The current practice of Winlink 2000 is to scan two channels by each fully
automatic Pactor-II station when they are allowed to operate anywhere in the
RTTY/Data/CW areas of the bands. THIS IS DONE SO THE MOBILE STATIONS DO NOT
HAVE TO WAIT AS LONG AS 4 MINUTES FOR A FREQUENCY THAT IS BEING USED BY
ANOTHER EMAIL ROBOT, so then they can go to another frequency, where there
is no Email robot, even if there is a CW or SSB already station there, and
cause an Email robot to just take over the frequency. 

If a single Pactor-III Email robot requires a 2.5 KHz channel, then a fully
automatic Email robot scanning two channels will use 5 kHz. 

There are currently 25 Winlink Email robots in the US and another 25
overseas, some of which can still interfere with communications in the US.
There are another, perhaps 25, Email Robots assigned for Emcomm use by
Winlink. 

Assuming an average of 40 Winlink Email robots can be heard worldwide on 20
meters, and each one automatically scans only two frequencies, then 40 Email
robots will take up 40 x 5 = 200 kHz of the 20 meter phone band, which is
80% of the phone band! 

ARRL claims that the operator triggering the Email robot to transmit will
not allow it to transmit on a busy frequency, but of course, it may not hear
stations in QSO local to the robot but remote to itself, so the Email robot
can just wipe out the local QSO, as is so often the practice now for CW and
PSK31 QSO's, AND WILL BECOME A REALITY FOR PHONE OPERATORS IF RM-11306 is
adopted. 

If you think that sacrificing 80% of the 20 meter phone band to be used for
Email messaging for Winlink's less than 1% of the US ham population is a
good idea, you do not need to do anything. 

IF YOU THINK THAT EMAIL ROBOTS SHOULD BE CONFINED TO A SEPARATE SPACE ON THE
BANDS, THEN YOU NEED TO FILE COMMENTS TO THE FCC AND LET THEM KNOW YOUR
POSITION! 

It is as easy as 1-2-3-4 to file a comment! 

1. Go to: http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/upload_v2.cgi 

2. Fill in RM-11306 (in all caps) where it says "1. Proceeding" 

3. Fill in the rest of the spaces with your name and address where indicated


4. Type a brief comment to the FCC where it says "Send a Brief Comment to
FCC (typed-in) 

Please make an effort to file a comment on RM-11306 before February 5! 

73, Skip KH6TY 
 

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Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 3:36 PM
To: Florida Amateur Digital Communication Association
Subject: Re: [FADCA] Robots everywhere soon


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Calder" <n4zkf at n4zkf.com>
To: "'Florida Amateur Digital Communication Association'" 
<fadca at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 15:29
Subject: [FADCA] Robots everywhere soon


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> This pretty much sums it up.
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> http://www.idiyachts.com/RadioEmail.html
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> Dave
> N4zkf

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What's a Robot?

bud N0IA

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