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On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:12:29 -0500 (EST), "ARRL Web site"
<memberlist@www.arrl.org> wrote:
>SB QST @ ARL $ARLB007
>ARLB007 FCC Invites Comments on ARRL Petition That Seeks 80/75 Meter
>Adjustments
>
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>ARRL Bulletin 7 ARLB007
>From ARRL Headquarters
>Newington CT February 23, 2016
>To all radio amateurs
>
>SB QST ARL ARLB007
>ARLB007 FCC Invites Comments on ARRL Petition That Seeks 80/75 Meter
>Adjustments
>
>The FCC has put the ARRL's January Petition for Rule Making (RM
>11759 - found on the web at,
>http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=60001374190 ) on public
>notice and invited interested parties to comment on what the League
>has called "minimal but necessary changes" to 80 and 75 meters. The
>ARRL petitioned the FCC to fix a "shortfall in available RTTY/data
>spectrum" that the Commission created when it reapportioned 80 and
>75 meters 10 years ago.
>
>The League's petition asked the FCC to shift the boundary between
>the 80 meter RTTY/data subband and the 75 meter phone/image subband
>from 3600 kHz to 3650 kHz. The proposed change received strong
>support from ARRL members, and the ARRL Board of Directors adopted
>it as policy at its July 2015 meeting. At that time the Board also
>agreed to seek RTTY and data privileges for Novice and Technician
>licensees within their current 15 meter CW subband, and to do the
>same on 80 meters, depending on the outcome of the 80/75 meter
>subband revision.
>
>The petition asks the FCC to make the following changes to the Part
>97 Amateur Radio Service rules, with respect to 80/75 meters:
>
>* Modify the RTTY/data subband, so that it extends from 3500 kHz to
>3650 kHz.
>
>* Modify the phone/image subband, so that it extends from 3650 kHz
>to 4000 kHz.
>
>* Make 3600-3650 kHz available for General and Advanced Class
>licensees, as was the case prior to 2006.
>
>* Make 3600-3650 kHz available to Novice and Technician licensees
>for telegraphy - consistent with existing rules permitting Novices
>and Technicians to operate CW in the 80, 40, and 15 meter General
>and Advanced RTTY/data subbands.
>
>* Modify the rules governing automatically controlled digital
>stations (ACDS), to shift the ACDS segment from 3585-3600 kHz to
>3600-3615 kHz, consistent with the IARU Region 1 and 2 band plans.
>
>According to the ARRL, the FCC R&O in Docket 04-140 released in 2006
>departed substantially and without justification from the rules
>proposed in the FCC's so-called "Omnibus" Notice of Proposed Rule
>Making (NPRM), with respect to 75 and 80 meters. Among other
>actions, the resulting changes expanded voice privileges on
>additional frequencies in various bands, including 75 meters. The
>FCC shifted the phone/image subband from 3750-4000 kHz to 3600-4000
>kHz, trimming the 80 meter RTTY/data subband from 3500-3750 kHz to
>3500-3600 kHz and substantially changing "the entire dynamic of this
>band," the League said.
>
>Although the Omnibus R&O had indicated that incumbent licensees
>would not lose any operating privileges, some clearly did, the ARRL
>has pointed out. The most substantial adverse effect of the
>"unexpected and vast expansion" of the 75 meter phone/image subband,
>the League said, was the elimination of access to 3620-3635 kHz by
>ACDS.
>
>The Omnibus R&O rule changes limited 80 meters to 3500-3600 kHz, and
>no longer authorized RTTY and data emissions above 3600 kHz. That
>the Omnibus R&O did not modify Part 97.221 of the rules to provide
>for ACDS "was clearly an oversight by the Commission."
>
>After the FCC denied a subsequent ARRL Petition for Reconsideration,
>the Commission replaced the inadvertently deleted 3620-3635 kHz ACDS
>segment with 3585-3600 kHz.
>
>"Far from fixing the problem created by the error in the Omnibus
>R&O, the moving of the inadvertently deleted digital subband
>downward in frequency below 3600 kHz made the situation in the 80
>meter RTTY/data subband even worse than it was," the ARRL said. The
>result has been a shortfall in available RTTY/data spectrum at 80
>meters.
>
>"ARRL has analyzed the regulatory limitations as part of a
>comprehensive effort to make more efficient the use of those HF
>allocations, especially with respect to encouraging further
>experimentation and proficiency in narrowband digital communications
>technologies," the League said in concluding its Petition. "The
>recommendations for modified band plans developed by ARRL
>necessitate the few, but important regulatory changes proposed."
>NNNN
>/EX
73, Bill W6WRT
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