[RTTY] History of automated stations rules

[Terry]

Some history of automated station rulings that may be of help:

 

1986 - FCC granted automatic control of amateur stations operating on VHF
and UHF

 

1995 - Based on the ARRL's recommendations:  ARRL RM-8218 and RM-8280 , the
FCC allowed automated control on HF in Part 99.221 of the rules. 

<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.radio.info/X_qsSNLkQOo>

<http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view;jsessionid=vkfsSGBRgZ2sc7Qx8qp68FYtL
1JnWTRvh5hLyjCzGKrN1h2b09JY!1357496456!-1864380355?id=1316220001>

Result is automated stations can operate anywhere if they are under 500 HZ
bandwidth and there is a human operator on one side of the link.

 

 

2006:  N5RFX filed RM-11392 which was an attempt to put all automated
stations into a sub band.   

<http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=6519008574>

RM11392 asks the FCC to re-establish the narrowband nature of the RTTY/Data
sub bands in the 80 through 10-meter bands. Emissions have crept into the
narrowband RTTY/Data subbands in the 80 through 10-meter bands that are not
appropriate for the RTTY/Data sub bands. Stations under automatic control
have taken advantage of loopholes created by terminology in the commission's
rules that is not applicable to new operating modes.    There were 650
comments mostly against.   The FCC denied the petition.  The FCC said "We
believe, therefore, that transmissions by an automatically controlled
station on a frequency outside the subbands specified in Section 97.221(b)
will cause no more interference to other amateur station's transmissions
than transmissions by other amateur stations on these frequencies."

<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-08-1082A1.pdf>

 

 

2014 RM11708 - The ARRL proposes removal of the 300 baud symbol rate and
move to a 2.8 KHz bandwidth.  The damages from this have already been well
discussed.

 

 

Conclusion - We need a "Spectral defense fund" to protect us from the ARRL.