[Lowfer] Looking for 73 kHz band modes to try...

[JD]

>>> I am operating under an experimental part 5 license-it is part of our 
>>> experimental purposes.

Rightly so, and that operation is not subject to Part 97.

What I'm looking ahead to is the day when Part 97 will likely be applicable 
to some band(s) below 500 kHz.  It may not be right around the corner, but 
we're closer to that goal than has been the case for the past 20 years, so 
I'm not ready to give up yet.  (Unofficially, I'd heard that the Commission 
was thinking of taking up 630 meters this winter.  The government shutdown 
probably got in the way of that, and almost certainly put them farther 
behind on their big priority, the massive spectrum sell-off, so rulemaking 
could be even farther off now.  But someday....)

Remember the other side of the coin, though.  The currently popular 
digimodes don't even conform to the requirements for data emissions on HF in 
the US rules at present.  Hence the need to be thinking about either a new 
mode or else getting an agreed-upon varicode incorporated into Part 97. 
Practical experimentation at LF and VLF right now could be helpful in 
achieving one or both of those objectives.

73
John