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SB QST @ ARRL $ARLB068
ARLB068 ARRL backs plan
QST de W1AW
ARRL Bulletin 68 ARLB068
From ARRL Headquarters
Newington CT June 25, 1993
To all radio amateurs
The ARRL has filed comments supporting a Federal Communications
Commission proposal to allocate 219-220 MHz to the Amateur Service
on a secondary basis, nationwide, with just minor exceptions.
The proposal (in ET Docket 93-40) was aired in April and was based
on a petition for rule making by the ARRL. It would allow amateur
auxiliary station (point-to-point) packet backbone networks and
other amateur point-to-point fixed communications in the new band.
The ARRL called the proposed allocation ''urgently needed by the
Amateur Radio Service,'' saying it would ''be a great relief from
difficult circumstances for the Amateur Service'' resulting from the
loss of 220-222 MHz in 1991.
The ARRL opposed the FCC proposal to limit data rate to 56
kilobauds, saying that would limit the next step in the evolution of
high speed packet radio, and suggested the appropriate way to limit
interference to shared and adjacent users was by specifying maximum
bandwidth of signals.
The League also said that the new band should be available to all
digital communications (not just ''data emissions'') which otherwise
comply with the technical rules applicable to amateur operation in
the band, and that digital voice should be permitted (but that
analog voice links should not).
The League also said it had had extensive consultations with
Waterways Communications, the Automated Maritime Telecommunications
System which now occupies 219-220 on a primary basis, and that it,
the League, ''is confident as a result that amateur point-to-point
operations can be 'engineered in' the 219-220 band without harmful
interference to AMTS operations.
The Reply Comment deadline for this proposal is July 15, 1993. More
information on the FCC proposal appears in QST for May 1993, p 86.
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