[pskmail] Off Topic Maybe: A Nasty Proposal of Rule Making for the FCC
- From: Rob Frohne <frohro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: linlink@xxxxxxxxxx, PSKMail <pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, EchoIRLP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:30:07 -0800
Hi All,
I received this email last night, and made my comments. It appears that
the LIDS operating Pactor III are causing a lot of animosity. I don't
think that is a good reason to restrict our digital modes.
Rob
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A terrible petition now at FCC USA seeks to eliminate all advanced ham
radio digital data modes such as ALE, PACTOR3, Olivia, MT63, OFDM, fast
PSK, MFSK and others.
We only have a few days, by January 1, to respond and kill it.
Only you can save ALE, by your comments to FCC.
It only takes a few minutes on the web.
Click here, enter proceeding, RM-11392 and your commments:
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/upload_v2.cgi
Fill in the appropriate parts of the form, then write your comments in
the lower part "Send a Brief Comment to FCC (typed-in)"
Here are suggested examples of comments, below. Don't let FCC kill
digital data on ham radio.
73 Bonnie KQ6XA
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Feel free to copy and paste any (or all) of these into your comments.
1. I oppose the RM-11392 petition by Mark A. Miller seeking to change
Amateur Radio Service automatically controlled data stations and
narrower bandwidths on HF.
2. The RM-11392 petition is very bad for the Amateur Radio Service.
3. The RM-11392 petition seeks to destroy 21st century digital data
technology advancement in the Amateur Radio Service. Please do not turn
back the clock on digital data to the 20th century.
4. The RM-11392 petition's proposed 1.5kHz bandwidth limit on data
emission is too narrow for established international standard
transmissions and equipment bandwidths used by the Amateur Radio
Service.
5. The RM-11392 petition is an attempt to kill innovation, technology
advancement, and emergency data communications in the Amateur Radio
Service. Please do not let this happen.
6. The FCC Amateur Radio Service's automatically controlled data
sub-bands are already too narrow for the huge volume of traffic that
runs on them. If a limit of 1.5kHz bandwidth is applied, it will
severely hamper the ability of amateur radio operators to share these
small band segments efficiently through rapid data methods.
7. There is a huge installed base of Amateur Radio Equipment, and
millions of dollars of monetary investment by thousands of Amateur
Radio Operators that use HF digital data systems with more than 1.5kHz
bandwidths. This investment by FCC-licensed operators would be taken
away or rendered useless if the objectives of the RM-11392 petition
were to be adopted.
8. Several of the primary established HF emergency communications
networks currently in service and utilized by thousands of Amateur
Radio Operators in USA would be totally eliminated or hobbled if the
objectives of the RM-11392 petition were to be adopted.
9. The Amateur Radio Service relies upon international communications
standards. Many of the present digital data communications standards
require bandwidths in excess of 1.5kHz. The normal amateur radio
service bandwidth limit by governments of other countries is 6kHz or
more.
10. Thousands of licensed Amateur Radio Operators would be
disenfranchised if the objectives of RM-11392 were to be adopted.
11. The RM-11392 petition is comparitively similar to an Analog
Cellular Phone service entity trying to eliminate newer Digital
Cellular Phone service. The fact is, Amateur Radio is now using faster
time-multiplexing digital methods to enable more stations to
efficiently use the same frequency channels simultaneously or in rapid
succession. These time division techniques require at least 3kHz of
bandwidth.
12. RM-11392 petition has not presented a compelling need to change the
rules for Automatically Controlled Data Stations on the HF bands.
END
Read the petition:
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=
6519008574
RM-11392 part 1 and
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=
6519008575
RM-11392 part 2.
Enter your comments:
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/upload_v2.cgi
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