[RTTY] ARRL attack on current RTTY users

[Kok Chen]

On Nov 23, 2013, at 5:49 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:

> However, operators of such systems claim they are not automatically
> controlled (they are "controlled" by the interrogating station) and
> thus not subject to 97.221 - including the bandwidth limitation.

They are getting away by claiming that the control operator of the link is that guy in his sailboat and therefore they are not operating under 97.221?

If you are right, then the protection of 97.221(b) is completely voided (i.e., that it is not automatic, since there is a control op).

I will include in my comments, that if the Commission decides to allow ARRLs bandwidth request (that 2.8 kHz nonsense), that the Commission needs to reaffirm that RMS servers are operating under rule 97.221(b), to keep the little guys protected.

Really, technically, to call that sailor a control op is stretching it.  I know that I have made RTTY transmissions and a Bzzzzt comes back at me -- so, by these guys claims, I am now the control op of that Bzzzzt signal?  Give me a break!

73
Chen, W7AY