[RTTY] Please forward this far and wide, its important if you care about CW and RTTY

[Terry]

CTDXCC, RTTY reflector and DFW Contesters,

Many of us know Ted, N9NB, and his contributions to amateur and the
engineering world.   For those who may now know Ted, here is a link to a
page on the ARRL site where you can get a feel for Ted's credentials.
Here is a quote off the ARRL site:   "Ted Rappaport is one of the most
renowned professors in communications engineering and is widely known from
his textbooks, research centers and products,".   
<http://www.arrl.org/news/ted-rappaport-n9nb-named-recipient-of-ieee-educati
on-award>
 
Ted is right on target and RM-11708 needs to be STOPPED!  The ARRL is WRONG
and ramming this thru the FCC without any input from low bandwidth CW and
Data users.  If you have not filled a FCC comment please do so.   There is
still a short time left.


Thanks,

Terry AB5K



-----Original Message-----
From: CTDXCC [mailto:ctdxcc-bounces at kkn.net] On Behalf Of Ted Rappaport
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 9:30 PM
To: CTDXCC
Subject: Re: [CTDXCC] CTDXCC Digest, Vol 136, Issue


Please forward this far and wide, its important if you care about CW.

I hope all who care about the future of CW and RTTY will file thoughtful,
rationale comments AGAINST  RM 11708. We desperately need more AGAINST
comments to overturn this dreadful proposed rulemaking!

It takes only a couple of minutes, and here are clear instructions how to do
it:

http://64.128.19.154/RM11708.pdf

In making this flawed rule making, the ARRL is essentially declaring war on
all CW and RTTY users of the HF bands, and it is as if they filed a law suit
against incumbent hams in that spectrum at the FCC. 

This is a pure and simple spectrum grab at the expense of CW and RTTY hams.


First, the ARRL did not seek broad approval, this is a back room dealing and
a rule making that attepts to strip a decades-old protection on
human-to-human protection of CW and RTTY/PSK31 users. 300 baud is ESSENTIAL
to keeping a bandwidth containment on all low band users.  The RM 11708
attempts to STRIP this vital protection, and make the baud rate UNLIMITED.
Then, they proposed to widen the bandwidth for any data signal to 2.8 kHz,
wider than today's SSB Signals! Today's CW and RTTY signals are no more than
a few hundred HZ wide......now the ARRL wants to fill the lower HF bands
with data users that are 2.8 kHz wide!

If we don't speak out against this, at once, we are in jeopardy of losing
our FCC-protected status, as the 300 baud limit protects narrowband users,
like CW and RTTY operators, from harmful interference! And the low bands
will be populated with machine-to-machine automated stations that do not
properly identify themselves or listen bvefore transmiting! Ham radio as we
love it and know it will be gone! WE MUST SPEAK OUT!

Please spread the word- we MUST get hundreds of more AGAINST comments at the
FCC if we want to stop this thing and enjoy CW in our retirement years! I
have done the analysis, I have tried talking logic to the league. I have
done much expert witnessing in my career on spectrum.

THIS IS A PURE AND SIMPLE SPECTRUM GRAB BY THE ARRL AND WE MUST SPEAK OUT
AGAINST THE ARRL AND AGAINST RM 11708 IF WE CARE ABOUT USING CW AND RTTY!

Please spread the word, we must get public comments on file. This is not the
time to sit back and do nothing! Educate yourself- See that the ARRL has put
up a red herring, where they 'make up" some bogeyman wideband signal that
could not exist practically, only to strip away the 300 baud limit that
protects the narrowband CW and RTTY users.

Please speak out, we must save our hobby if we care about enjoying the human
to human modes of CW and RTTY.

Ted