[RTTY] ARRL board of Directors meeting this week

[Don Hill AA5AU]

I disagree. I believe the only way to fix this is to have the ARRL withdraw it so it can be discussed, negotiated and an appropriate
petition presented back to the FCC. Suggestions such as yours about authorizing 2.8 kHz only for the automated subbands and above
would be something that might be negotiable. But the ARRL does not want to negotiate. That's apparent by their methodology here.

Don AA5AU

-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Michael Adams
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 5:21 PM
To: rtty-contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] ARRL board of Directors meeting this week

I've kept my mouth shut because I'm a fairly new subscriber to the list, and my own views on the subject probably wouldn't be
particularly popular here....but I've never been that successful at self-censorship.  So, here's my $0.02 worth.

Something that you might want to consider, even though it's late in the game.... if the League were on the level about wanting to
remove the symbol rate limitation (without giving license to spectrum-consuming attempts at HF broadband) while otherwise
maintaining the status quo, perhaps they would be agreeable to a tweak to the proposal:

In my comments to the FCC, I suggested that it would be less disruptive to authorize 2.8kHz ONLY for the automated subbands and
above.  Below the Pactor playgrounds, it would be reasonable and somewhat in keeping with current practices to set the bandwidth
limit at 500Hz.  

(A narrower constraint might be appreciated in the usually CW-only segments of the bands, but I figured a simple counterproposal had
a better chance of success.)

That, of course, does nothing to resolve concerns about the non-open-source nature of Pactor 2+, many Winlink users'  apparent
inability to listen before transmitting, the limited spectrum available for non-CW operations on 30m, or our apparent inability to
adapt among ourselves as circumstances evolve.   However, given the League's stance, the write-in campaign from Winlink users, and
the FCC's apparent receptiveness to the proposal (they did, after all, invite someone to propose a new rule in their report to
Congress a bit over a year ago, if you read between the lines)... the ship has not only sailed, but it's probably out past the
breakwater now.

Efforts at this point might be better spent on trying to get a course correction, rather than trying to reel the ship all the way
back to the dock.

73

-- 
Michael / N1EN


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