[PPRAANet] Amateur Radio Safety Foundation, Inc. (ARSFI) Board Files FCC Response to Rappaport Campaign

[Larry Wilkes]

Thanks for this, John!

I thought the response paper filed by Winlink.org was educational and extremely well written; it presents a powerful fact-based rebuttal to Rappaport’s emotion-driven claims.  

73,

Larry
K0SDG 

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> On 12 Dec 2018, at 10:53, John Bloodgood <johnbloodgood at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> All,
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> (Speaking personally, wearing only my amateur radio hat, not my ARES or AUXCOMM hat, and not my PPRAA board member hat)
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> The Amateur Radio Safety Foundation, Inc. (ARSFI), which is the development and administrating organization for Winlink and other data suites, is asking the FCC to replace the current 300 baud symbol rate limitation on HF to a 2800 Hz spectrum limitation. This would allow the use of higher speed modes on HF (notably PACTOR 4), more experimentation with data modes to advance the art and science of amateur radio.
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> A gentleman named Theodore Rappaport has filed comments regarding this to the FCC and some of the things he is talking about could set amateur radio data modes/suites, including FT8, Winlink, Fldigi, WSPR, JT65, APRS, etc. back to the stone age. Worst case, we could end up limited to little more than RTTY.
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> The ARSFI has done a good job of countering and dismantling Mr. Rappaport's arguments; however, they could really use the amateur radio community at large to weigh in and show support and demonstrate just how important this is to us.
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> The following link will help explain the situation and will give you links to the filings in question. You can read them for yourselves and make up you own mind and if you feel strongly one way or another, you can file comments of your own following the procedures on one of the linked pages.
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> https://winlink.org/FCC_Action
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> John Bloodgood, KD0SFY
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