----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert McGwier" <rwmcgwier@comcast.net>
To: "RTTY" <RTTY@contesting.com>
Cc: "TAPR HF Sig" <hfsig@lists.tapr.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 7:27 AM
Subject: RE: [RTTY] ARRL Proposal to redefine subbands by bandwidth
> <<Bandwidth in the existing "RTTY/data subbands" would be limited by rule
to
> either 500 Hz or 3 kHz. In the following subbands where 3 kHz would be
> permitted, phone emissions would specifically not be permitted: 3650-3725,
> 7100-7125, 14100-14150, and 21150-21200 kHz. The reason for this is to
> encourage the development of higher-speed data communications in these
> subbands by preventing them from becoming de facto "expanded phone bands."
> The prior ARRL proposal to expand some HF phone bands is included in the
> separate FCC Notice of Proposed Rule Making, WT Docket No. 04-140, and is
> taken into account in these new proposals. >>
>
>
> Please explain to me one line of this where it says that PactorIII, etc.
> will
> be allowed to operate below (for example) 14100. I don't believe it says
> that anywhere. I read this as saying that the wide modes will be
restricted
> to above these X.100 limits.
I think maybe Skip is concerned about non-pactor III automated stations?
Most of the automated pactor stations now operating are NOT pactor III, and
as I understand it, these could move DOWN into the RTTY areas, joining the
"500 Hz neighborhood".
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