[RTTY] ARRL BOD minutes

[Peter Laws]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Mark <n2qt.va at gmail.com> 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.

I was going to be upset at the nibbling away of the phone portion of
80 and then remembered (eventually, but before sending this), that
until very recently, the phone portion started at 3700.

But why do it this way?  Why not just amend the existing Technician HF
slots to allow?  Not that many Techs are on HF (below 28 MHz, anyway),
but why did the expand the CW privileges for them a few years (10?)
ago?

What problem was being solved by giving them the entire General CW
allocation on 80/40/15?

And if you're allowed digital at 200 W, what is your incentive to
upgrade?  The slivers you get when you go from Tech to General will
get even smaller.


(Did I just write a message with almost all questions?  Did I?)


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