Wouldn't it be a lot easier oneveryone including the AF if they just
confined their ops to 420-440 and left hams repeaters alone on 440 to 450
Mhz. Seems to me like another big government mess devoid of any common
sense. In fact we have yet to even get a simple answer from them as to how
wide their guardband is that they do not operate in right next to the band
edge.
Glenn
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Subject: [Repeater-Builder] ARLB016 Next Round of PAVE PAWS Mitigation
Contacts Begin
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ARRL Bulletin 16 ARLB016
From ARRL Headquarters
Newington CT October 24, 2008
To all radio amateurs
SB QST ARL ARLB016
ARLB016 Next Round of PAVE PAWS Mitigation Contacts Begin
On Wednesday, October 22, the FCC notified the ARRL that they would
immediately begin making direct contact with owners or trustees of
approximately 40 repeaters. The US Air Force identified these repeaters
earlier this year as contributors to the harmful interference affecting the
Beale Air Force Base PAVE PAWS radar installation near Sacramento,
California.
ARRL understands that contact with individual amateurs will be made from
the DFCC's San Francisco office, said ARRL Regulatory Information Branch
Manager Dan Henderson, N1ND. The owners of these newly identified repeaters
will be provided the operating parameters determined by the Air Force
engineering unit's testing to be necessary to mitigate the interference. The
owners will be requested to meet signal strength limits as soon as possible.
The ARRL Lab and staff are available to answer specific questions for the
owners of these newly identified repeaters and to provide technical
information to assist them in implementing the mitigation.
Henderson said that as the Amateur Radio Service is a secondary user on the
70 cm band, It is important for amateurs to remember that it is 100 percent
our responsibility to eliminate harmful interference to the primary user.
While we realize that this is and will continue to be an ongoing process,
this third round of mitigation should mean that each of the known repeaters
in the affected area have been tested at least once. How the FCC will
address approximately 50 repeaters previously identified as interference
contributors -- but which have not apparently completed the required
modifications -- still remains. Nor is it clear when a process by which new
coordinations can be issued in the area might commence.
Henderson reminded amateurs that It is important to remember that this
isn't a one-time solution. The amateur community needs to remain aware of
this problem and responsibly utilize the band in the future to avoid any
large-scale problems such as those we have experienced in this situation.
/EX
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