You obviously either ignored, or didn't read, the actual article and the section that referred to this activity and just read the summary.
It really said: "The Board approved the "establishment of a Study Committee to study, research and consider developing a plan to move the US amateur community to narrowband channel spacing in the VHF/UHF bands. The Board felt that since the FCC has mandated that commercial radio move to narrowband channels by 2013, those companies that manufacturer Amateur Radio equipment usually follow commercial practice. The VHF/UHF bandplan currently use 15 and 20 kHz FM channels. Amateurs are using narrowband equipment outside the repeater sub-band because there is no real place to fit narrowband pairs." None of this has anything to do with our typical HF operations. It's not clear that even the upper end of 10 meters, where there is FM operation and repeaters, is even included in the study, since "VHF" generally starts above 30 mHz. Pete, wa2cwa On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:47:07 -0700 (PDT) "J.D. MacAulay, WQ8U" <jmac6...@yahoo.com> writes: > The October 2009 QST magazine, page 64, reports the actions of the > 2009 second meeting of the ARRL Board. > > The Board approved the "establishment of a Study Committee to study, > research and consider developing a > PLAN TO MOVE THE US AMATEUR COMMUNITY TO NARROWBAND CHANNEL > SPACING." (Emphasis mine) > > One has to wonder who those folks really represent after their > performance with the frequency allocation by signal bandwidth push > and now this. > > Maybe all us AM Ops will be dead by the time their buracuracy gets > through all this process. - probably not though. > > Time to start writing to Newington? > > 73 > Mac > WQ8U > Hillsborough, NC ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
