Don't hold your breath anticipating that the new rules will be in effect for
ARRL Sweepstakes.
It can take anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of months before changes
appear in the Federal Register. In the case of the changes to Part 97 in the
Report and Order on Docket 04-140, there are some errors that are being noted
between what the FCC apparently intends to do and how those changes have been
implemented in the re-writes to the rules. Several parties in the ARRL,
including Board, staff and counsel, are looking at these and will be in touch
with the FCC to address these problems/errors. This doesn't mean that it might
not appear in the Federal Resgister shortly, but it is also likely that it may
take anywhere from 60-90 days before they go into effect.
They definitely will not be in effect before CQWW Phone weekend or Sweepstakes
CW. It is a long-shot that they will be in effect for Sweepstakes Phone. It
is a crapshoot that they will be in effect for CQWW CQ. I think a realistic
estimate is that they will be in place by the end of December or early January
- again, depending on the significance and number of correction that have to
take place.
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