The proposal study seems to focus on the VHF/UHF FM repeaters (currently 15 or 20kHz channel spacing - based on 70's and 80's design criteria) and moving to narrowband channel spacing (12 kHz or less). Since more and more narrowband equipment is coming into service these days, and things like D-STAR are growing fast, new repeaters can't fit into the current band criteria and are setting up shop outside the designated repeater sub-bands. there is nothing in the current rules to keep them from moving into the band areas that are currently occupied by SSB and AM phone operation. Hence the study to see what could be done, if anything, to possibly restructure the current FM repeater sub-bands to lower the channel spacing and thus keeping the FM repeater digital whatever out of the current "other modes" parts of our present VHF/UHF phone sections.
Pete, wa2cwa On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:38:41 -0400 "Bry Carling" <bcarl...@cfl.rr.com> writes: > So - did we miss anything here about 6m and 2m AM? Is that > affected by this proposal or not, Pete? > > Maybe it is the principle of regulation by bandwidth that concerns > Mac. > > You would think that after the hugely unpopular proposal they made a > couple of > years ago, that they would have learned. ______________________________________________________________ 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
