Planned ARRL Petition to the FCC to Regulate Subbands by
Bandwidth - Summary
- All of the SSB phone bands, and all of 160 meters, can be covered with
unattended Pactor-III robot stations (up to 2400 Hz wide) that do not share
frequencies, cannot, and do not, listen first for a clear frequency, do not
respond to a request to QSY, and do little else but use the ham bands as
email radio links to the Internet for the benefit of a privileged few,
consisting of less than 1% of the FCC-licensed hams. All current FCC
restrictions on where unattended Pactor-II email robots (500 Hz wide) may
operate will be also eliminated.
- Autoforwarding will be made illegal, signaling the immediate death of HF
Packet networks.
- PSK31 operations will be forced down into the CW activity regions in
order to escape interference from unattended Pactor robots, effectively
shrinking the CW bands.
- More space will be allocated for the relatively few people who use wide
digital modes than for the huge majority of people using SSB phone.
- Wide digital modes will be protected from any interference by SSB phone,
but SSB phone will not be protected at all from interference by wide digital
modes!
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The Ad Hoc HF Digital
Committee Dissenting Recommendation
A major point made in the Dissenting
Recommendation is that it is NOT a band plan, because any band plan
affecting ALL interests should be created by a committee representing ALL
interests