After reading all of the comments posted regarding this topic, it appears that it is a mini version of "regulation by bandwidth". It appears to me that it effectively would ban digital modes wider than 1.5kHz from the lower 100kHz of HF bands.
I agree that automatic operation is a problem, and this can only start from a PMBO or PMBO like system, however, a PMBO system does not transmit until it had been queried by a "client". This takes a PMBO out of the realm of unattended operation, even though it is automatic operation. I don't favor any petition whose effect would be to stifle innovation, and frankly, the digital modes are where amateur innovation is occurring. Not to say I don't support CW or Voice, but never to the exclusion of newer modes because of their signal characteristics. I have submitted a comment in opposition to this petition. Thanks for the time, Phil ..
