At 12:44 AM 1/14/2006 -0500, Dave wrote:
>At present, 97.221 limits this form of operation to bandwidths of 500 hz or
>less. If adopted, the ARRL's petition would eliminate this restriction.
>
> 73, Dave, AA6YQ
Dave:
very well put. the arrl proposal is junk and should be killed. one only has
to recall when amtor and packet started. before that we had a few mso
stations. we all knew what freq they were on and it was not really a
problem. then came rtty in a box and sound card ops. "i am not putting down
sound card ops" but this opened rtty up to a huge number of ops who before
found it too tech or time consuming to put a rtty station on the air. with
sound cards came packet "worst mode to hit hf" as the packet and amtor
stations started putting unattended stations on the air the mso's went by
the wayside. then the boys found the scan on their radios soon the packet
and amtor stations were all over the bands some scanning as many as 20+
freqs.Why they needed to scan 6 freqs on the same band was beyond my
understanding to me it was overkill. you could start a qso on one freq a
amtor or packet station would start up you moved and 2 mins later the SAME
station would start up on your new freq. I find something wrong with this.
you could not have a qso without some stations starting up right on top of
you. well we got most of the packet off HF except for the S.A. stations who
still run high baud packet around 14088 . then they found throb hell and a
few other weird modes and of course instead of running FSK the sound card
ops found it too hard to hook them up for FSK so the old AFSK that use to
be used on 50 MHz years ago found its way back into the hf bands. that was
find except that no one told the guys how to setup the soundcard software
to keep images and junk down. i find the software boys at fault for this.
if you write software i feel you should be required to include proper setup
info. this does not mean the ops with read and follow it but at least it is
there and when you find someone with a messy signal you can at least tell
them about it and where to look to fix the problem. so we ended up with a
bunch of nasty digital and rtty signals all over the bands. the old dx
window of 14.080 became covered up. all of this is old hat but this is how
this mess started. now we have more modes then we know what to do with. and
each of us has the mode we like to use. that is great. BUT we do NOT need
anymore unattended modes and if the arrl bandwidth deal goes thru you will
have these stations all over hf. K1ZZ is in bed with the Winlink/Pactor
group and they are looking for a nationwide network of scanning unattended
stations on all bands covering the country. they are not just looking at
one freq per band but many freq's across each band with this we are headed
into another mess and the wars with start up again as they did a few years
back. this arrl junk is going to effect all modes and all ops so we all
need to take time and read not only the arrl proposal but the fcc rules
also.as the changes the arrl wants will effect more then they want you to
know. everyone of us has feelings on this matter and instead of putting
them out on email like we all do "and i include myself" we should stick
with informing each other of just what the rules state and what changes
will occur then we should all go to the fcc and file our thoughts.
sorry for a long winded email this is my first and last on the subject
73 Tony wa4jqs
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