--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com,
"expeditionradio"
<expeditionradio@...> wrote:
>snip<
As for the supposed "loss" or "disappearance" of the automatic band at
3620kHz to 3635kHz, I do not believe this FCC error should be allowed
to stand for very long.
Perhaps the FCC's interim correction to the rulemaking will be one of
these options:
1. Simply move the automatic band to 3575kHz-3600kHz, although this is
incompatible with bandplans of other IARU regions.
2. Drop all band restrictions for automatically controlled stations on
80 meters. Some form of automatic control will be working its way into
many of the different systems we use, anyway. So the definition of
what is automation, and what is operator-helping computer programs is
becoming as blurred as the antique definition of mode itself.
>>>With the widespread opposition to the relaxation of
constraints on
unattended (semi-automatic) operation in RM-11306, as expressed by
hundreds of comments filed with the FCC, one hopes the FCC would not
casually decide to let automatically controlled stations run wild on
80m or any other band.
>>>Clearly, the FCC has been sloppy in its rollout of this
rulemaking. Compounding this with an even sloppier correction would
be a disaster.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
