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- ARRL Bulletin 54 ARLB054
- >From ARRL Headquarters
- Newington CT June 23, 1994
- To all radio amateurs
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- ARLB054 2300 MHz news
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- 2300 MHz news
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- A proposed reallocation of 35 MHz of spectrum in the 2300 MHz band
- goes against the will of Congress, the ARRL has told the FCC, and
- existing and future amateur uses of that spectrum must be protected,
- the League said in comments filed June 15, 1994.
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- The comments were in response to an FCC Notice of Inquiry (NOI),
- released May 4, that asks for information from potential applicants
- for use of the spectrum -- at 2300 to 2310 MHz, 2390 to 2400 MHz,
- and 2402 to 2417 MHz. Amateurs currently share 2300 to 2310 MHz and
- 2390 to 2417 MHz with US government users.
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- The NOI is the result of a plan from the National Telecommunications
- and Information Administration (NTIA) to transfer 50 MHz to private
- users immediately, and another 150 MHz later, from spectrum now
- allocated for federal government use.
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- The League first commented on the idea of frequency transfers in
- 1990, when the NTIA began a study of the entire domestic
- telecommunications ''infrastructure.'' In 1992, the League responded
- to an NTIA Notice of Inquiry, saying that continued or upgraded
- access to 2300 MHz was crucial to future amateur uses, both
- terrestrial and satellite.
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- The transfer of spectrum from federal government to private sector
- use is required by the 1993 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act; but
- that Act also requires that the needs of amateurs be taken into
- account.
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- The League told the FCC that ''there is no indication of any finding
- or study, as required by statute'' (the Act) ''that the proposed
- reallocation of the spectrum that amateurs currently share for
- commercial use will be benign with respect to continued amateur
- occupancy of the band.''
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- The League said that the FCC, in justifying other reductions in
- amateur allocations between 220 and 2390 MHz, had implied that other
- frequencies, including those now proposed to be affected, would
- continue to be available to amateurs.
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