[RTTY] January 19th: Revenge of the Sith

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

 > Nothing about RM-11708 in the agenda.

Wrong:

     * Instructed staff to prepare answers to frequently asked questions
       (FAQs) about the ARRL “symbol Rate” Petition for Rule Making
       (PRM), RM-11708.

Which translated from "Board Speak" means 'Instruct staff to prepare
more lies to buttress the outright grab of CW/PSK/RTTY spectrum by our
friends and their commercial interests since we're too stupid/lazy and
Counsel lacks competence to produce an intelligent proposal for the
Commission.'

The Commission told ARRL *exactly what they wanted* in 2006 (WT 01-140)
<http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-06-149A1.pdf>
in the way they handled image modes in the "RTTY, digital" allocations
(yes Virgina, you can even use *analog* image modes in the "RTTY,
digital spectrum even though they are not specifically authorized in
97.305).  If ARRL had proposed modifying 97.305 to place 500 Hz limit
in those areas current designated as "RTTY, digital" and add "RTTY,
Digital" with bandwidth no greater than 2800 Hz to the "Voice, image"
segments, this would have been a *non-issue*.  Yes, the sub-bands for
automatically controlled digital operations would have needed to be
relocated to allow winstink and craptor to utilize the wider modes but
that would have been nothing but a minor ("conforming") adjustment.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 1/19/2014 12:13 PM, Peter Laws wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Ben Antanaitis - WB2RHM
> <wb2rhm at wb2rhm.com> wrote:
>> Preliminary results from the ARRL BOD meeting:
>>
>> http://www.arrl.org/news/kay-craigie-n3kn-wins-third-term-as-arrl-president
>>
>> Congrats to Kay, but the devil is in the details, read through the entire
>> release... and wait for the details of the meeting to be released.
>
>
> Here's what I sent Kay in 2010 on the occasion of her first election:
>
> ``Congratulations!
>
> ``Now, keep all those men in Newington in line.  :-)
>
> ``73,
> Peter
> N5UWY
> LM, VE, etc''
>
>
>
> I hope she didn't think I was kidding.
>
> Not much in the release.  Nothing about RM-11708 in the agenda.
> Minutes will likely be as vague ...
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