We need a lot of help to pull this off. It cannot come from one person or
they will just say that's one person on a rage. We are pulling together a
good team for the band plan and the white papers also need key folks to
write and review them. The white papers should also have an approval
section that allows key folks to review and sign them off as being
technically accurate and sound. This should come from the many and not
the few. No bashing allowed. There are a lot of good ideas from lots
of folks, samples below.
Terry
Skip KH6TY
Winlink wants YOUR frequencies! - Not satisfied with dominating the 3.8%
of the HF ham frequencies set aside by the FCC for wideband unattended
operations, Winlink, for the sole benefit of their less-than-1% of the US
hams, is now pressuring the ARRL to take away frequencies used for
contesting, Dxing, ragchewing, experimentation, and award-chasing, and make
those additional frequencies available for Winlink to dominate with their
unattended email robots.
Joe, W4TV
This is exactly the kind of spectrum grab that needs to be prevented.
jeff/ac0c
The ARRL is advocating changes which would affect ALL of the US hams
should the FCC grant it. All the while, the League claims to represent the
best interests of the US ham community. This despite taking virtually no
membership input into these decisions before advancing them, and sitting
aside the fact that the League's membership is only about 15% of the US ham
population. We (again) are being sold a bill of goods reflective of an
agenda that is based on the personal outlook and opinions of very few.
Don AA5AU
Theoretically, one Pactor 4 signal could wipe out over a hundred JT9
QSO's.
Dave, AA6YQ
I am happy to support the league in constructive efforts like LotW, but I
will vigorously oppose an initiative as obviously flawed as RM-11708.
Don AA5AU
This whole deal is not about replacing a symbol rate limitation with a
bandwidth limitation. It's all about Pactor 4 and making it legal in the
United States so people can start using it to link to the Internet and pass
large amounts of data over HF and other people can start making some money
off it. And they certainly don't give a damn if the frequency is already in
use.
Joe, W4TV
Winlink and PACTOR III/IV are a blight on amateur radio and should be
made illegal in the same way as bandwidth wasting spark was made illegal in
the 1920s.
Dave, AA6YQ
A stronger argument is that no increase in bandwidth should be permitted
until the issue of QRM from automatic stations has been resolved. ...
WinLink servers still do not include busy frequency detectors, and are now
ignoring 97.221's sub-band requirements. Enabling WinLink servers to use
wider bandwidth modes outside the 97.221 sub-bandswould result in large
increases in QRM to ongoing QSO'S.
K3HRN, Thom
Please act today to help preserve amateur radio as a hobby, for the
traditional purpose of communicating with other radio amateurs, and not as a
radio gateway to the Internet for a special interest group.
Don AA5AU
"The ARRL further asserted that the fear of interference from
automatically controlled stations "is not a valid one." Yeah, right!
Dave, AA6YQ
The "interference from automatic stations" problem has been denied,
ignored, and slow-rolled for years; ... Automatic stations should not be
permitted to use faster digital modes until an effective means of reducing
their interference to ongoing QSOs has been instituted.
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