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- ARRL Bulletin 24 ARLB024
- >From ARRL Headquarters
- Newington CT March 5, 1993
- To all radio amateurs
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- SB QST ARL ARLB024
- ARLB024 FCC proposes new band
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- In response to a request by the ARRL, the FCC has proposed in ET
- Docket 93-40 to establish a secondary allocation for the amateur
- service in the 219-220 MHz band to be used for amateur auxiliary
- station (point-to-point) packet backbone networks and other amateur
- point-to-point fixed communications. The Commission also proposed
- operating limits and other measures to ensure that such amateur
- operations do not cause interference to primary operations in and
- adjacent to the 219-220 MHz band.
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- The FCC noted that these systems can be used in times of emergency
- when other communications facilities are out-of-service or
- overloaded to efficiently carry a large volume of messages, and that
- amateurs plan to use wideband backbone packet radio networks to
- provide intercity links of their local packet radio systems.
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- In its petition, ARRL asked the Commission to authorize access by
- amateurs on a secondary basis to the 216-220 MHz band for amateur
- wideband packet networks and other point-to-point fixed
- communications services. ARRL argued that crowded conditions on the
- existing bands, particularly in urban areas, prevented completion of
- a nationwide backbone packet network following the loss of access to
- the 220-222 MHz band.
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- The Commission is proposing to authorize amateur wideband packet
- point-to-point communications and other point-to-point fixed
- communications on a secondary basis in the 219-220 MHz band. The
- Commission said it believes this will foster technological
- experimentation and innovation, particularly with higher data rates,
- and facilitate the construction of a nationwide packet data backbone
- network. The Commission expects that this action will relieve
- congestion in the 222-225 MHz band in certain geographic areas. The
- Commission said the amateurs' ability to perform interference
- analysis, the directional nature of the proposed services, and the
- secondary status of this proposed allocation should adequately
- protect all primary and existing secondary operations in and
- adjacent to the 219-220 MHz band.
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- The comment deadline on the FCC proposal will be announced later,
- when the complete text of the notice of proposed rule making is
- available.
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