[KCDXC] THANK YOU MR. HOLLINGSWORTH!!!!!!!

[Alex Tkatch]

 Glad to hear it. Have to say that NU9N and K6JRF have
a pretty good WEB's one can learn something from, but
'Extended SSB' gang act like they own 14.174(?), have
signals too wide with IMD and W2ONV, as I remember
from my conversation with him - is a real AHO... 
Alex KU1CW.

P.S I know that Bob, W0BR/1 is into HI-FI SSB, but
without 'extended bandwidth'(?). Was nice to meet you
today at the fleemarket Bob. Come back to KC.   

--- Mike ZooLoo <aa0mz@yahoo.com> wrote:
> It's about damn time!  73, Jim (AA0MZ)
> 
> From ARRL website:
> 
> "Enhanced SSB" Bandwidths "Extremely Inconsiderate,"
> FCC Says
> 
> NEWINGTON, CT, Apr 17, 2003--The FCC has sent
> advisory
> notices to four enthusiasts of what's become known
> as
> "enhanced SSB"--the practice of engineering
> transmitted single-sideband audio to approach
> broadcast quality. Letters went out earlier this
> month
> to amateurs in Illinois, Florida and New Jersey who
> are aficionados of enhanced SSB, also known as
> "upper
> wideband" and "lower wideband." 
> 
> "The Commission has received numerous complaints
> regarding the operation of your station," FCC
> Special
> Counsel Riley Hollingsworth wrote Paul Christensen,
> W9AC, John Anning, NU9N, Anthony Latin, W4NSG, and
> Sareno Salerno, W2ONV, on April 3. Hollingsworth
> said
> complaints to the FCC alleged that the bandwidths of
> the stations' enhanced SSB emissions were "wider
> than
> necessary and contrary to good engineering
> practice." 
> 
> "Wideband overly-processed audio, especially when
> coupled with the high intermodulation levels of
> certain amplifiers, results in the use of bandwidths
> extremely inconsiderate of other operators,"
> Hollingsworth said. Such transmissions may violate
> FCC
> rules and may be at odds with what Hollingsworth
> described as "the expectation that the Amateur
> Service
> be largely self-regulated." 
> 
> Occupying more bandwidth than necessary in a heavily
> used amateur band, Hollingsworth wrote, is contrary
> to
> the requirement that amateurs cooperate in using the
> frequencies allocated to them and make the most
> effective use of the spectrum. Such
> "shortsightedness"
> on the part of those transmitting enhanced SSB
> signals
> not only could lead to ill will among operators but
> to
> petitions asking the FCC to establish bandwidth
> limits
> for amateur emissions. 
> 
> The FCC defines bandwidth as "the width of a
> frequency
> band outside of which the mean power of the
> transmitted signal is attenuated at least 25 dB
> below
> the mean power of the transmitted signal within the
> band." It imposes no specific bandwidth limits on
> various amateur modes, however. 
> 
> Hollingsworth cited �97.307(a) of the Amateur
> Service
> rules that requires the signal of an amateur station
> to not occupy "more bandwidth than necessary for the
> information rate and emission type being
> transmitted,
> in accordance with good amateur practice." Some
> amateurs have complained that enhanced SSB signals
> can
> take up 8 kHz or more of spectrum, cause splatter
> and
> unnecessarily interfere with other stations. 
> 
> "The Amateur Service is not a substitute for the
> Broadcast Service," Hollingsworth said, citing
> �97.101, General Standards, "and the frequencies
> allocated to the Amateur Service were not allocated
> for a 'broadcast quality' audio emission or sound." 
> 
> Hollingsworth acknowledged that the FCC encourages
> amateurs to contribute to the advancement of the
> radio
> art, but he recommended that the enhanced SSBers do
> so
> in a way "that does not have a negative impact on
> other amateur stations or their operations," He
> suggested they might accomplish this by operating at
> times when the bands are less busy or on bands that
> are not heavily used. 
> 
> The many complaints the FCC has been getting--as
> many
> as 20 per week--leads to the conclusion that the
> stations' enhanced SSB operation is having "a
> negative
> impact" on the Amateur Service, Hollingsworth said.
> "In conclusion, no frequencies in the Amateur
> Service
> are designated as 'wideband audio' frequencies,
> either
> by Commission rule or in any informal band plans,"
> he
> wrote. 
> 
> He requested the four amateurs to "fully review the
> rules" and make sure their stations conform to them.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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