[RTTY] ARRL BOD minutes

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

 > Anyone want to guess where this is headed?

It's another poorly thought out idea from ARRL - this time from the
Southeastern Division Director.  Technicians already have privileges
in the normal "digital" frequencies but are restricted to CW and 200W
output.  The only thing necessary would be to change their authorized
modes to allow 60H0J2D (PSK31) and 350HF2D/350HJ2D (RTTY).  That would
allow them to operate with the other PSK31/RTTY activity and not put
them is some "Tech ghetto" with little or no other activity.

> Also I didn't see discussion on the Band Planning Committee, and it's
> report has not yet been posted.

The Band Planning Committee "report" was on the "consent agenda" and
not discussed.  Rumor has it, the Band Planning report was "hidden"
the Committee could not come up with a band plan that accommodated
SSB bandwidth data in the narrow bandwidth segments of the HF bands
and the Board was unwilling to acknowledge that SSB Bandwidth data in
the is a bad idea in the face of their support for RM-11708.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 2014-07-30 7:46 PM, Mark wrote:
> In the minutes just published is: THEREFORE the ARRL Board of
> Directors directs staff to prepare and submit a petition to the FCC
> requesting the following rule changes:
>
> Create a 10 kHz Technician Digital Subband with a limit of 200 watts
> in the 80m, 40m, and 15m bands. Digital modes would be limited to
> RTTY and PSK. The subbands would be 3,600-3,610 kHz (moving the
> bottom of the Extra phone band to 3,610 kHz), 7,115- 7,125 kHz, and
> 21.190-21.200 MHz.
>
>
> Anyone want to guess where this is headed?  Also I didn't see
> discussion on the Band Planning Committee, and it's report has not
> yet been posted.
>
> Mark. N2QT _______________________________________________ RTTY
> mailing list RTTY at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/rtty
>