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

[Bob Raide]

John;
It is interesting that these new digi modes don't comply with present part 97.  Most of them, anyway.  I think the saving grace may well be the general nature of the mode.  QRP.  The very low power condoned by the use of them certainly doesn't ruffle any feathers.  If there were 1500 watt carriers and fskers jumping here and there things might be different!
I am sure the 600 or 630 [MF] band is pretty much a done deal.  The power to be authorized is so low that there isn't much of a chance to interfere with primary users, if there is such a thing-Bob
 
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> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 21:34:54 -0600
> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Looking for 73 kHz band modes to try...
> 
> >>> 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 
> 
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