This is irrelevant to the current proposed action on the table. If you want to write a proposal to the FCC, have at it. It doesn't take a broad consensus of amateurs to push a proposal before the eyes of the FCC.
Pete, wa2cwa On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:36:07 -0600 "D. Chester" <k4...@charter.net> writes: > Two, 40m. Although this would take FCC action to correct in the USA, > > phone/cw segregation should be more closely aligned with that of the > other > regions. Specifically, in light of the removal of (most) broadcast > stations > from 7100-7200, the N. American band plan should accommodate phone > down AT > LEAST to 7100 kHz. (Most other Region 2 countries are already > operating > phone well below 7100 anyway). > > This would apply immediately to Canada, Mexico and other countries > in the > Americas, since nearly every country in the world, except for the > U.S., long > ago phased out government-mandated subbands. > > It is ridiculous that 25% of the newly-vacated frequencies are off > limits to > US phone operators, yet at best there are hardly ever more than a > half dozen > or so CW/RTTY/data QSO's on 7100-7125 at any given moment, while > 7060-7100 > remains under-used by U.S. non-phone ops as well. SSB ops are fond > of > complaining about AM activity in the vicinity of 7160 because of the > > "limited band space" to operate phone in the newly vacated segment. > We need > to be thinking of a petition to the FCC to further expand the 40m > phone > band. > > Don k4kyv > _______________________________________________________________ > > This message was typed using the DVORAK keyboard layout. > > http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/ > http://gigliwood.com/abcd/ > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > ______________________________________________________________ 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
