Topband: Symbol Rates (was: BoD votes LoTW initiatives)

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

I don't have a problem with removing the symbol rate language ...
but I'd rather that symbol rat remain that give carte blanch for
automatic 2.8 KHz wide noise generators t fire up anywhere they
want in the "CW/digital" band.

This is just another backdoor means for he PACTOR III commercial
interests to get access to the amateur spectrum after "regulation
by bandwidth" failed a few years ago.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 7/24/2013 8:09 AM, Brian Machesney wrote:
> Joe,
>
> I don't understand your objection to removal of the symbol rate language.
> Under the existing band plan, CW is expected to co-exist with other
> "digital" modes of all kinds.
>
> Now, I don't like to hear even narrow-bandwidth PSK or RTTY signals when
> I'm operating in the "traditionally CW" portions of the bands, but I don't
> believe this is even primarily a question of symbol rate. When CW contest
> activity extends into, through and beyond the "traditionally digital"
> portions of the bands, I find it very difficult to pick a CW signal out of
> a densely-packed cluster of PSK carriers or RTTY stations. In my
> experience, it is not the symbol rates of the PSK and RTTY stations that
> cause the interference, but the ability of my brain to discriminate against
> the natures of modulation of those signals.
>
> I agree with you that we need to review the band plans. But to me that
> doesn't mean that we should allow the persistence of language which may
> hold back technical progress.
>
> 73 -- Brian/K1LI
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV <lists at subich.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Save us from a Board of Directors that would not know Digital Operation
>> if it bit them on the ass.  All we need is a bunch of 2.8 KHz wide
>> chunks of "white noise" across the entire "non-voice" spectrum.  If
>> they want to remove the symbol rate, the bandwidth better be compatible
>> with that of CW (100 Hz or less) in the majority of the shared non-voice
>> spectrum.
>>
>> As usual, the ARRL BOD has proven how little they know about amateur
>> operation!
>>
>> 73,
>>
>>     ... Joe, W4TV
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