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- ARRL Bulletin 51 ARLB051
- >From ARRL Headquarters
- Newington CT June 15, 1994
- To all radio amateurs
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- SB QST ARL ARLB051
- ARLB051 New FCC NPRM
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- New FCC NPRM
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- FCC proposes automatic control for amateur HF digital
- communications.
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- In a notice of proposed rule making in PR Docket 94-59, adopted on
- June 13, 1994, the FCC has proposed amending the Amateur Service
- rules to authorize automatic control of stations transmitting a
- digital signal on the HF bands. The action had been requested in
- petitions filed by the ARRL and the American Digital Radio Society
- (ADRS).
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- In 1986, the FCC authorized automatic control of amateur stations
- transmitting digital communications on the VHF and higher frequency
- bands, and indicated that it was interested in authorizing such
- automatic control on the HF bands.
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- To determine solutions to the problem of interference from
- automatically controlled HF digital stations, the ARRL conducted a
- feasibility project under special temporary authority granted by the
- FCC to 50 amateur stations. The ARRL petition was based on the
- results of that study.
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- The FCC said that it was gratified by the cooperation and dedication
- of amateur organizations in determining the conditions necessary to
- allow automatic control of stations transmitting data and RTTY
- emission types on the HF bands. It agreed with the two petitioners
- that automatic control of amateur stations in the HF bands can, with
- safeguards, make the transmission of data and RTTY emission types
- both practical and effective.
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- Therefore, the FCC proposed to authorize automatic control for
- stations transmitting data and RTTY emission types on one specific
- subband of each HF band where such emissions are authorized. It
- also proposed to authorize communication between a locally or
- remotely controlled station and an automatically controlled station
- on any frequency where data and RTTY emission types are otherwise
- authorized.
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- The text of the NPRM has not yet been released, and the comment
- deadline is unknown at this time.
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