> Want to fight to get rid of semi-auto operation? Knock yourself out.
It's allowed now under FCC regs and is not likely to change. More
influential groups than the mythical omnipotent evil mastermind Bonnie
will make sure that will not change!
I think this misses the point. Yes, there are some who have been harmed
enough times by being stepped on by automatic stations that they would
like to see them go away. And, yes, this is not likely to happen.
However, to suggest expanding the space where automatic stations can
operate shows a complete lack of understanding and appreciation of
bandplanning and current band usage. Messaging, of all kinds, is by far
the minority use of the ham bands, and the automatic stations already
have more space in proportion their representation than they fairly
whould have. The idea is not to "get rid of "automatic (or
semi-automatic) operations, but to stop any additional space being
allocated to such operations because it takes away from non-automatic
operations that already have insufficient space in which to accommodate
all users. The point has been made many times that automatic stations
would not need more space if they used a protocol that supported
frequency sharing (the way AX-25 does), but they do not. The solution
therefore is for the automatic stations to use a better protocol to let
them share better and not try to spread over more and more space needed
by the far greater majority of operators who have no interest at all in
messaging, high-speed or otherwise, oh the HF bands.
73 - Skip KH6TY
Alan Barrow wrote:
KH6TY wrote:
> It would give ALE ops more frequencies
This is a huge leap of paranoia...... ALE operation by definition does
not "want" or even can utilize more frequencies. Hams who want to use
ALE already have well established frequencies to use. There is no
advantage to adding more, and really some disadvantages!
The whole design & approach of ALE as practiced by amateur radio is that
of standardized frequencies, one per band, with designated alternates
for qso for extended traffic under manual control. This is already in
place & working. And not likely to change.
It's also already allowed per FCC regs, so it's very unlikely there
would be a net reduction in that.
So the whole idea that this is a frequency grab for ALE ops is simply
misinformed and displays ignorance of how ALE works and is used in the
amateur world.
Want to fight to get rid of semi-auto operation? Knock yourself out.
It's allowed now under FCC regs and is not likely to change. More
influential groups than the mythical omnipotent evil mastermind Bonnie
will make sure that will not change!
You are right about one thing... there are many other players in the mix.
ALE ops would be minimally impacted by Bonnie's proposal. It's future
modes that will be impacted. Witness the reoccuring "I invented a new
mode, try it on 14.xxx". "No, you can't go there, that's the XYZ mode
center of activity.....".
So I'll ask the question: how do we enable the development & use of new
modes, ideally more efficient ones when there is no place for them to
operate?
Want to keep the status quo, and miss the next psk? Express yourself. Or
propose your own solution!
Make it about individuals, or even user groups, you just wasted your
input!
Have fun,
Alan
km4ba
