Tom, After talking to Tom Frenaye, K1KI who made the motion which resulted in Minute 64 at the ARRL BOD, I don't think there is anything sinister towards AM. Tom has been friendly to AM over the years. The danger is in the course of the petition process. Some eager beavers may want to solve more supposed "bandwidth problems" than the those caused by new digital emissions. This is why we must stay close to the petition development process. We also need to let our ARRL Division Directors know that we as AM'ers are always concerned when bandwidth subband regulation is the subject because of previous attempts to disenfranchise AM operations under the guise of "improving spectrum efficiency.
Dale KW1I -----Original Message----- From: K0PJG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dale Parfitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; amradio@mailman.qth.net <amradio@mailman.qth.net>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Howard Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, August 16, 2002 2:11 PM Subject: [AMRadio] Fw: Minute 64 adopted at the most recent ARRL Board of Directors meeting on ... Hello Dale, Will I am not one to shy away from standing up for AM, but read the response from our ARRL Pres. ; Have they just not been specific enough on Minute 64 or is there something afoot Watson ? Tom - K0PJG ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 1:08 PM Subject: Re: Minute 64 adopted at the most recent ARRL Board of Directors meeting on ... "The ARRL is petitioning the FCC to regulate subbands by bandwidth. 1. First off, we do not have a petition. 2. You can't work phone in the subbands now. 3. What we are interested in is two new modes of digital. Clover 2000 and Pactor 3. 4. Under the present rules, 300 baud RTTY is the signal width standard. Clover 2000 and Pactor 3 are a bit wider. It is felt that by being able to accommodate these two new technologies, amateur radio would be in compliance with its charge under part 97 to "promote and enhance the art...." 5. Presently our technical team is looking at what frame work is needed to accomplish the new modes. I hope this helps and if you would pass it on so as to quell the fears of the AM'ers. 73 Jim Haynie, W5JBP President, ARRL --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML or had an attachment. Attachments are not allowed. Please post in Plain-Text only.--- _______________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list AMRadio@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio
