A Google search returns lots of discussions of this proposal going back more
than a decade.
Some of the arguments against contain the same spittle flecked invective hurled against the ARRL on a daily basis in
the general class portion of the 80M phone band (a.k.a. "CB") because it's from the ARRL and contains the
letters "A", "R" and "L"; and the second shooter/9-11 inside job conspiracy fans that
believe the HF bands would be overrun by millions of yacht owning hams checking their email.
I'm all for dropping symbol rate restrictions. But allowing 2.8 kHz bandwidth
signals anywhere RTTY is allowed would be detrimental during contest weekends,
when you can find RTTY operators well into the .100+ segments of the bands that
are forbidden to SSB in the US but nowhere else in the world (a tangent I won't
belabor here). How many RTTY signals can coexist cheek to jowl in any 10 kHz
segment of spectrum? How many 2.8 kHz wide modes?
W8JI has a good explanation of the practical problems of intermixing wide and
narrow bandwidth modes at http://w8ji.com/mixing_wide_and_narrow_modes.htm
I'm not saying don't do it at all, but if you're going to allow 2.8 kHz wide
digital modes, you have to restrict them to sub-segments, and not the entire
digital segment.
Al
AB2ZY
-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of David Cole
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 7:49 PM
To: rtty@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] ARRL attack on current RTTY users
Hi,
That would help me as well, I do not see how this harms RTTY, and if it does, I
would like better understand.
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On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 16:18 -0800, Bill Turner wrote:
Ben, could you post a brief summary of the proposed action including the
pros and cons?
This is just the kind of thing that should be debated here.
Thanks,
73, Bill W6WRT
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