[RTTY] Fw: ARLB006 NTIA: No Objection to Additional Data Modes on 60 Meters

[Bill Turner]

The NTIA (which has jurisdiction over the FCC) has removed restrictions on Baudot RTTY and all other digital modes on the 60 meter band. Below is the message from ARRL.

Please be careful about centering your RTTY signal in the channel. Especially, be sure what your shift is. Every now and then I see stations using 200 Hz shift instead of the standard 170 Hz. I suspect most of them are using AEA TNCs which for some reason used 200 Hz as their default. 
Remember, whether using FSK or AFSK, your MARK signal is the higher RF frequency and SPACE is the lower, so do the centering accordingly. With FSK it's pretty straightforward but AFSK can be a little trickier. 

Hope to see you on the air as soon as my rig gets back from the radio hospital. 


73, Bill W6WRT



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>ARLB006 NTIA: No Objection to Additional Data Modes on 60 Meters
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>ARRL Bulletin 6  ARLB006
>From ARRL Headquarters  
>Newington CT  March 29, 2012
>To all radio amateurs 
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>ARLB006 NTIA: No Objection to Additional Data Modes on 60 Meters
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>In response to requests for clarification from the ARRL, the
>National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
>has confirmed that it has no objection to the use of a broader range
>of data emissions by amateurs on the five 5 MHz frequencies on 60
>meters. ARRL's original understanding was that the NTIA preferred
>that the use of 2K80J2D emission be limited to Pactor III. The NTIA
>now says that that is not the case.
>
>In an e-mail response to ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner,
>K1ZZ, Karl Nebbia, Associate Administrator of the NTIA Office of
>Spectrum Management, stated, "NTIA has no interest in limiting the
>types of emission used by the amateurs as long as the data emission
>does not exceed the 2.8 kHz bandwidth generated by the upper
>sideband transmitter." Nebbia referred all further inquiries to the
>FCC, which "...sets the conditions for use of the five 5 MHz
>frequencies by the amateurs."
>
>The requirement of only one signal per channel remains, as well as
>the prohibition against automatic operation. The FCC continues to
>require that all digital transmissions be centered on the
>channel-center frequencies, which the Report and Order defines as
>being 1.5 kHz above the suppressed carrier frequency of a
>transceiver operated in the Upper Sideband (USB) mode. This is
>typically the frequency shown on the frequency display.
>
>Channel  USB Suppressed Carrier (kHz)    Center (kHz)
>
>1        5330.5                          5332.0
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>2        5346.5                          5348.0
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>3        5357.0                          5358.5
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>4        5371.5                          5373.0
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>5        5403.5                          5405.0
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>The ARRL advises amateurs to operate with care when using digital
>modes in consideration of the fact that hams are secondary users on
>these frequencies. See the revised 60-Meter FAQ page on the ARRL Web
>at, http://www.arrl.org/60-meter-faq.
>
>The revised ARRL 60-Meter Recommended Practices document can also be
>found in PDF form on the web at,
>http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Regulatory/Recommended_Practices_Version_6_5.pdf.
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