Let me "drill down" on this some more to find out the prevailing view... Would those that object to Bonnie's idea, also object if the "wide" modes were not part of the issue?. How about these objections if there was a digital mode under 500 Hz that transmitted "unattended" under automatic control? It seems to me, that after years of complaints that PACTOR, ALE, and CW (W1AW) just fire up in the middle of a on-going QSO, that having an area designated for automatic unattended operations makes sense. Then, if we operate there, we do so knowing that W1AW or a WINMOR server may activate at any moment? (actually W1AW has a schedule , but you get my drift). A 500 Hz sliver of spectrum in 80, 60 (yes) 30, 17, and 10M would be all that is needed. The current ALE, Winmor, Pactor, operators (there really are only about 200 in the world , TOTAL ) would then use narrow forms of their mode to achieve their aims . coordinate schedules between them, and have 2500 Hz where their operations are primary, and other hams communications in these segments would be secondary.
Andy K3UK On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:50 PM, n9dsj <n9...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com <digitalradio%40yahoogroups.com>, Andy > obrien <k3uka...@...> wrote: > > > > > Andy K3UK > > Personalities aside, the proposed "bandplan" is a bad idea. I cannot think > of a present or future mode that could be better served by this. ROS has its > own problems and standard ALE and PactorIII presently have areas they can > reside. Neither are new or "advancing the state of art". Even Winmor, which > is relatively recent, can not co-exist with existing Winlink PactorIII; is > why they were told to stay out of the wide bandwidth automatic sub-bands. I > have not found ALE to be a problem as they stay on pre-determined > frequencies and actually have little traffic (no offense intended). The > prospect of wide bandwidth Winlink bots being able to operate on the > suggested frequencies is problematic and antithetical to the need for > frequency conservation. > > Bill N9DSJ > > > > >
