[RTTY] Will You Let FCC Kill PACTOR3?

Thu Dec 27 11:58:41 EST 2007

Posted on an Emergency Services Forumn.  Interesting proposal, you can follow the links if you have interest in the matter.  Of course this is the stuff in the lower part of 80 that we hear in the RTTY bands.

I have filled my comments in support of the proposal FWIW.  These wideband digital modes need to go elsewhere as the petition suggests.

>A terrible petition now at FCC USA seeks to eliminate 
>all advanced digital data modes such as PACTOR3, ALE, Olivia, 
>MT63, ALE, OFDM, fast PSK, MFSK and others.
>
>We only have a few days, by January 1, to respond and kill it.
>
>Only you can save PACTOR3, 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>http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/upload_v2.cgi
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>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!
>
>2. The RM-11392 petition is very bad for the Amateur Radio Service.
>
>3. The RM-11392 petition seeks to destroy digital data technology
>advancement in the Amateur Radio Service.
>
>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 peteition 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.
>
>10. Thousands of licensed Amateur Radio Operators would be
>disenfranchised if the objectives of RM-11392 were to be adopted.
>
>11. The RM-11392 peteition 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 peteition has not presented a compelling need to change
>the rules for Automatically Controlled Data Stations on the HF bands.
>
>END
>
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><http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6519820340>http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6519820340
>Please read RM-11392 . and make comments to the FCC. Here are the steps.
>
>Read the petition:
><http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6519008574>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>http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6519008575
>RM-11392 part 2.
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>Enter your comments:
><http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/upload_v2.cgi>http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/upload_v2.cgi 
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