[RTTY] 30 meter rtty restrictions

[George Henry]

Bill, here's what I would do:  e-mail the PropNet guru whose messages you 
forwarded to me (thank you) and send him the following message (feel free to 
copy and paste):

"Dear Sir:

Part 97.3(a)(9) defines a beacon as "An amateur station transmitting 
communications for the purposes of observation of propagation and reception 
or other related experimental activities."  PropNet "probes" are clearly 
beacons, as defined by the FCC.

Part 97.203(d) restricts automatic beacon operation to frequencies above 
28.200 MHz, and 97.221(c)(1) restricts automatic control of a digital 
station to only those stations responding to interrogation by another 
digital station under local or remote control.  Therefore, the automatic 
transmission of PropNet "probes" on ANY HF frequency below 28.200 is clearly 
illegal.

Unless these transmissions cease immediately, I will be forced to file a 
formal complaint with the FCC."


And then follow up on the threat if need be.  Make a list of all  the unique 
US callsigns you see in the left-hand column of the 24-hour listing on the 
http://www.propnet.org website, and forward it to Rileywith your complaint. 
He will probably e-mail you back asking you to fax a signed copy of your 
complaint to him, and then the letters will start to go out.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "FireBrick" <w9ol at billnjudy.com>
To: "RTTY List" <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 7:51 AM
Subject: [RTTY] 30 meter rtty restrictions


> Would the hams in countries that restrict 30 meter digital operations to
> above 10140 please advise me of online allocations so I can convince 
> someone
> that his beacon is right on top of the 10140-10145 prime intercontenental
> digital dx segment.
>
> He says we should move and I can't convince him that the allocations won't
> allow it, and that above 10145 is commercial shared traffic.
>
> please and thank you
>