[SECC] Fwd: [CQ-Contest] ARLB007 ARRL Board Adopts Modified Novice Band Refarming Plan

[Jay Pryor]

So we are going to lose some of the CW band?  Yes, I know we can operate CW 
on the phone band, but in actual fact "expanding the phone band" means the 
CW band loses.

Jay/K4OGG


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>ARLB007 ARRL Board Adopts Modified Novice Band Refarming Plan
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>ARRL Bulletin 7  ARLB007
> From ARRL Headquarters
>Newington CT  January 22, 2002
>To all radio amateurs
>
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>ARLB007 ARRL Board Adopts Modified Novice Band Refarming Plan
>
>The ARRL Board of Directors has adopted a modified proposal to
>refarm the Novice bands, now that the FCC no longer issues Novice
>licenses. The Board met January 18-19 in Fort Worth, Texas.
>
>The ARRL Novice Spectrum Study Committee had proposed allowing
>Novice and Tech Plus (or Technician with Element 1 credit) licensees
>to operate CW on General-class 80, 40, 15 and 10-meter CW segments
>at up to 200 W output. The panel recommended refarming the current
>Novice/Tech Plus CW subbands, in part to allow expansion of phone
>allocations on 80, 40 and 15 meters.
>
>The Board approved a modified plan that would leave in place or
>slightly trim the amount of additional phone spectrum the committee
>had recommended for 75 and 15 meters. The amended plan would drop
>the US phone band to 3725 kHz on 75 meters but leave it at 21,200
>kHz on 15 meters. The original plan called for dropping both by 25
>kHz.
>
>The 75-meter proposal would expand the phone band by 50 kHz for
>Generals over the present allocation and by 25 kHz for Advanced and
>Extra licensees. On 15 meters, Generals would get another 25 kHz of
>phone spectrum, but phone privileges for Advanced and Extra class
>operators would stay the same.
>
>The Novice Spectrum Study Committee's original recommendations for
>40 and 10 meters were accepted. The ARRL plans to propose the
>modified refarming plan to the FCC later this year along with other
>regulatory requests.
>
>The Board also deferred until its July meeting a decision on whether
>to cut ''Section News'' and contest ''line scores'' from QST and move
>them to the ARRL Web site as part of an effort to stem ARRL
>operating losses. Before deciding to relocate the QST content, the
>Board said, it wants members to be ''aware of the reasons for the
>proposed relocation and the enhanced capabilities available on the
>Web site.'' The Board said it also wants to evaluate ''variations and
>alternatives'' to the proposal.
>
>The Board did decide to eliminate the minutes of its own
>meetings--published as ''Moved and Seconded''--from QST. Minutes
>already are posted on the ARRL Web site and will be made available
>via alternative means to members lacking Internet access.
>
>The Board also voted to accept several changes to the field
>organization rules, as the Volunteer Resources Committee
>recommended. According to the new rules, ''The Section Manager is
>accountable for carrying out the duties of the office in accordance
>with ARRL policies established by the Board of Directors and shall
>act in the best interests of Amateur Radio.'' Section managers will
>be proscribed from ''committing, obligating, or binding the League''
>without review by the Field and Educational Services Manager and
>approval of the ARRL president.
>
>Among other changes, the revised rules will prohibit a section
>manager removed from office for running in the next SM election
>following removal. Anyone removed by action of the Executive
>Committee would have to get that committee's consent to be eligible
>to run again. The Executive Committee also will have the power to
>cancel any field organization appointment ''whenever it appears to be
>in the best interest of the ARRL to do so.''
>
>The Board also modified the ARRL by-laws to say that anyone removed
>from office by recall ''shall not be eligible to be a candidate for
>director or vice director for three years following removal from
>office.''
>
>The Board further resolved to petition the FCC for reconsideration
>in ET Docket 98-156, by comments in ET Docket 01-278, and ''by other
>necessary means'' in order to elicit ''a clear statement from FCC
>acknowledging the limit of its statutory jurisdiction to authorize
>the manufacture and sale of unlicensed Part 15 devices.''
>
>The Board resolved to extend the ARRL's ''most sincere condolences to
>the families and friends of the radio amateurs who lost their lives
>on September 11, 2001.'' The Board also commended and honored
>amateurs ''who generously volunteered their time and expertise during
>the rescue and recovery efforts on September 11 and thereafter.''
>
>The Board holds its next meeting in July in Windsor, Connecticut.
>NNNN
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