[RTTY] Will You Let FCC Kill PACTOR3?

[Rick Ellison]

Well if you are all in favor of the proposal please go to the comments link
and express that you are in favor of this proposal as it stand right now the
pactor and Ale people have 3-1 margin of people who oppose the
resolution....

73's Rick n2AMG

-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Neal Campbell
Sent: December 27, 2007 2:30 PM
To: Kok Chen
Cc: RTTY Reflector
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Will You Let FCC Kill PACTOR3?

As they say in France
D'accord.

I am in favor of the resolution.

Neal

On Dec 27, 2007 6:23 PM, Kok Chen <chen at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 27, 2007, at 8:58 AM, WS7I wrote:
> >> RM-11392
>
> For details, go to
>
> http://www.southgatearc.org/news/december2007/bandwidth_band_plan.htm
>
> where you can find links to the pdfs of the original RM.
>
> The following are my impressions.
>
> RM-11392 proposes that the FCC go back to use the old definition of
> allowable bandwidths for 12m through 80m ham bands so that RTTY and
> Data modes are limited to a bandwidth of 1500 Hz.
>
> 1500 Hz is plenty of bandwidth.  Among the digital modes in use
> today, RTTY uses about 215 Hz, MFSK16 uses 316 Hz.  MT63 and Olivia
> uses up to 1000 Hz.  All of which would easily fit within the
> proposed limit of 1500 Hz.  There is a 2000 Hz variant of Olivia
> which I am not sure is often used.
>
> The only currently used digital mode that occupies more than 1500 kHz
> is the higher data rate steps of Pactor III (Pactor III keeps
> increasing bandwidths if the path allows it to, up to about 2200 Hz).
>
> The RM also asks for clarification of what an automatically
> controlled station is, and limiting them to above 14.095 MHz on 20m,
> for example.
>
> RM-11392 pretty much attempts to keep Pactor III in particular, and
> automatic stations in general, from interfering with keyboard digital
> modes.  Just MHO, of course.
>
> 73
> Chen, W7AY
>
>
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