[Fists] re arrl's bandplan proposals

[Will White]

At a glance, I am opposed to simply "refarming" and opening the sub-bands to
'phone, especially on 40 meters, where I believe it is important first to deal
with SWBC QRM, move the Region 1 & 3 broadcasters up 100 KHz at least, and give
Region 1 & 3 hams some breathing room by allocating 7100-7200 worldwide to
amateurs on a primary basis.  Since some modification to 40 meters is possible
at WRC-03 (and very likely by the following WRC at least), and since WRC-03 will
almost certainly do away with altogether internationally required CW testing, I
think it unwise to make any large scale band plan changes at this time.  Let's
wait and see what happens at the Conference, and then in response to those
changes make our own. It would be stupid for the FCC to change the US 40-meter
band plan and then have to do it all over again after WRC-03, to accomodate what
happens there.

I don't share the ARRL's POV at all that the 75/40/15 phone bands are
"critically. . .overcrowded." I don't spend much time on 80/75, but both 40 and
15, while busy, have enough space most of the time these days. Maybe every sked
and net can't always have "its" frequency, but when I listen (and occasionally
QSO, hi) to the 40 & 15 meter 'phone bands, there is always a place to "park."

The situation below 7100 KHz right now is all but unmanageable. In the past week
I have regularly heard DX SSB stations down as far as 7028 KHz, and pretty loud!
On one occasion in the past month, I even heard a EU station in an SSB QSO with
a ZL on 7016!! Does anyone know what the ITU, IARU, various foreign government
communications agencies have to say about this?  I had always thought that below
7040 was *CW-only* everywhere, by international treaty and national laws.  Is
this no longer the case?

--
Will White, KD7BFX
Seattle WA US
King County, Grid CN87tq
ITU Zone 6, CQ Zone 3
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"Mike D." wrote:

     > I ve been a little busy lately to follow this but does anyone know
     if
     > the ARRL has filled petitions with the FCC yet for their marvelous
     band
     > plan, and more importantly has the FCC opened this for comments yet.
     I
     > hope all you cw lovers out there will take the time to let the FCC
     know
     > how you feel about this, It only takes a few minutes.
     > ken w8ob #7242
     > --
     > SUPPORT RADIO-TELEGRAPH THE VOICE OF THE PROFESSIONAL RADIO OP.

     ==>ARRL ASKS FCC TO ELIMINATE, "REFARM" NOVICE CW BANDS

     The ARRL has asked the FCC to eliminate the 80, 40 and 15-meter
     Novice/Technician Plus CW subbands as such and reuse that spectrum in
     part
     to expand the phone allocations on 80 and 40 meters. In a Petition for
     Rule
     Making filed March 22, the League requests that the FCC revise its
     Amateur
     Service rules in accordance with the modified Novice band "refarming"
     scheme
     the ARRL Board of Directors okayed in January. The Petition has not
     yet been
     put on public notice for comment.

     "The opportunity to eliminate the Novice and Technician-Plus
     telegraphy
     subbands and the reapportionment of those inefficiently deployed
     segments
     will allow alleviation of significant, sometimes critical,
     overcrowding in
     the popular Amateur HF allocations," the ARRL said in its Petition.


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