[LeArc] ARLB009 ARRL asks FCC not to Rush to Judgment

[Tony Coniglio]

Rush to Judgment


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> ARLB009 ARRL asks FCC not to Rush to Judgment
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> ARRL Bulletin 9  ARLB009
> >From ARRL Headquarters  
> Newington CT  January 29, 2003
> To all radio amateurs 
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> ARLB009 ARRL asks FCC not to Rush to Judgment
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> The ARRL has registered mixed feelings about the FCC's Spectrum
> Policy Task Force Report, issued last November. In comments filed
> this week, the League called the report a positive first step in
> developing a comprehensive spectrum management approach. At the same
> time, the report fails to address the needs and goals of the Amateur
> Service and urged the FCC to not abandon longstanding allocation
> policies that are based on engineering.
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> The report's orientation toward commercial services makes it not
> wholly applicable to the Amateur Service, which cannot pay for
> spectrum access. ARRL said there's not been enough time to study the
> report's recommendations thoroughly, much less deploy them
> immediately.
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> The ARRL said it was "encouraged," however, that the FCC had worked
> to involve all portions of the telecommunications industry in
> developing a spectrum policy. ARRL asked the FCC to consider greater
> use of "negotiated rulemaking" to expedite allocation decisions.
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> In its initial comments to the Spectrum Policy Task Force filed last
> June, the ARRL said marketplace forces should not determine Amateur
> Radio spectrum allocations and that interference management is a
> technical, not an economic, issue. 
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> The ARRL's comments on the FCC's Spectrum Policy Task Force Report
> in ET Docket 02-135 are available on the ARRL Web site at,
> http://www.arrl.org/announce/regulatory/et02-135/arrl-comments.html .
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