I disagree with the statement that in a regulation by bandwidth that there is no phone band. Yes there is. In Canada we have bandwidth only restrictions. I would no sooner transmit Pactor in the phone band than transmit SSB in the CW band. Why? Its because commonsense prevails most of the time and we adhere to a voluntary band plan which is laid out by Radio Amateurs of Canada. If Canadian operators, or any country in the world for that matter, just arbitrarily decided they they would no longer adhere to some internationally recognized band plan just think how fast they would be jumped upon by the rest of the amateur community. Even with band restrictions only laws you have to have agreed upon mode restrictions on certain portions of the bands, because otherwise you'd have anarchy. It works in Canada and other places around the world because most of the amateur operators want to work cooperatively with the rest of the planet. And one more thing, for which I will probably loose my Kanuckistan passport for saying... if we didn't have the FCC regulating the US amateur community then we'd probably have huge problems around the world trying to adhere to gentlemanly band plans because there are a lot of unreasonable people out there, some of which are licensed...
Paul VE9NC --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "k4cjx" <k4...@...> wrote: > > > Amazing that one thinks that 1 percent can cause any type of difference, > anywhere, especially on the Phone bands. Regulation by bandwidth and not by > mode seems to be working everywhere that it is allowed. under a bandwidth > regulatory environment, there is no "phone band." > > BTW, it wasn't "winlink" that wanted anything, it was the ARRL who wrote the > proposal. There were flaws in it, but it was headed in the proper direction. > it will return as we move toward a digital future. > >
