I'm not asking for 90% of the band for my own use and I've never played a video game. Some hams don't want to limit themselves to voice and typing text on a keyboard and neither do many of the agencies that hams serve during emergencies. Lower path loss is an advantage for every mode and having the FCC allow a wide maximum bandwidth doesn't force every station to become that wide. The 70 cm band is shared between stations that are 9 MHz wide (30% of the band) and those that are 30 Hz wide. Certainly we can tolerate some stations that use 5% (200 kHz) of the 6 meter band. One advantage of a faster transfer rate is that more stations can share the same frequency.
FYI, there is no space in the 1.25 m band plan for a 200 kHz wide signal but there is in the 6 m band plan. The 219-220 MHz band is available only for fixed point-to-point message forwarding and isn't available to hams for QSOs. 73, John KD6OZH ----- Original Message ----- From: bruce mallon To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com ; R.obert Mount Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 03:16 UTC Subject: [digitalradio] 220 sits empty.... The spectrum between 50 and 450 MHz is useful because path losses are low FOR SSB AND CW ...... THAT'S RIGHT FOR SSB, CW how many 200 kHz wide stations can you fit on 220 or 440 ? how much more path loss ? The 300 khz is a joke every time that has been tried it has failed so nwhat you say for your OWN use you need 90% of these bands ? Terrestrial wide band for what ? why do you need that ? for what reason ? for links from the Internet to play video games. There is no reason for any wide band below 219 fill up 1.25 meters then try again .... __________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
