[CQ-Contest] Hollingsworth and Voluntary Bandplans

[Tom Baugh AE9B]

Hollingsworth and Voluntary Bandplans

Let's face it guys... It's a voluntary band plan... a gentlemen's agreement
Hard to enforce... and no legal grounds. I'd love to say it is black and
white but it isn't.
How do you define INTENT?
If Riley came to me and asked me to please refrain from transmitting SSTV on
14.233
I'm not sure what grounds he'd have for that.. I'd probably oblige but not
sure if he'd be "PICKING SIDES" or what. There's a difference between
Voluntary and Gentlemen's Agreements and enforcable RULES...
Can't we just get along?

Tom
AE9B

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Tippett" <Hollingsworth and Voluntary Bandplans


>
> NEWSLINE RADIO - CBBS EDITION #1135 - 05/14/99
>
> http://www.arnewsline.org/newsline_archives/cbbs1135.txt
>
> It's a double sided sword
>
> Meanwhile the FCC's chief rules enforcer Riley
> Hollingsworth, K4ZDH, has asked a slow scan
> television operator to spread the word that SSTV
> should be careful not to interfere with organized
> voice net operations.   The letter to Larry Teel,
> KJ7QP, notes that he was heard transmitting SSTV on
> 14.236 MHz and interfering with the Indexa Net.
>
> But instead of reprimanding Teel, the FCC's
> Hollingsworth has asked the Texas ham to please
> assist him by reminding other Slow Scan operators    <---
> of the gentlemen's agreement bandplan for SSTV.      <---
>
> This is generally from 14.228 to 14.232 MHZ.
>
> Hollingsworth says that the FCC wants to avoid any
> formal enforcement action against SSTV operators.
> He wants them to stay inside the agreed to bandplan   <---
> and thereby minimize interference to other modes.     <---
>
> But there is a caveat for the nets and operators of
> other modes.  Hollingsworth says that if the Indexa   <---
> net appears to be causing deliberate interference     <---
> to slow scan television operations within the         <---
> gentlemen's agreed to subband, to let him know.  He   <---
> promises to do a follow-up on all such complaints.    <---
>
>


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