[K3PZN-List] ARRL Executive Committee Readies Bandwidth Recommendations

[Al Bisasky]

This should be of interest and importance to anyone who works the HF 
bands...

>From the ARRL website:

NEWINGTON, CT, Apr 13, 2005--Acting on the premise that the amateur bands 
must flexibly and comfortably accommodate present and future operating modes 
and technologies over the long haul, the ARRL Executive Committee has 
reached consensus on recommendations to the ARRL Board of Directors for a 
regulation-by-bandwidth proposal. Meeting April 9 in Denver, the panel 
adopted recommendations that will form the basis of a draft ARRL petition to 
the FCC seeking to govern the usage of amateur spectrum by emission 
bandwidth rather than by mode. The proposals remain only EC recommendations 
at this point. Nothing will be filed with the FCC until the ARRL Board of 
Directors gives its go-ahead. Five of the 15 voting Directors sit on the EC. 
ARRL CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ, says a key principle underlying the League 
initiative is that the amateur community must shoulder the responsibility 
for resolving conflicts among potentially conflicting modes and not 
expect--or wait for--the FCC to impose its own solutions.

Read the rest at www.arrl.org

73 Al K3ZE