I would absolutely not recommend that we hold off. The reason being that if we hold off, once the 60 day extension expires, the FCC is likely to just enact 16-239 as-is which is not what we voted on and approved in July.

As for Lor and Bonnie, they are always going to ask for the most spectrum for their modes. Meanwhile we represent all amateurs and all modes and need to balance the interests of all amateurs.

It should also be noted that Lor is but one voice and that cooler heads within ARSFI are willing to work with us.

So I would ignore Lor and Bonnie for now, and press on with the band planning effort.

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 11:33 AM Michael Ritz <w7vo@comcast.net> wrote:

I am going to recommend that we hold off on Counsel's FCC submission until the new bandplan committee puts in a recommendation on the new digital bandplan as part of the submission. The part of the current proposal related to to lumping all wide-band digital signals into with the ACDS segment has gotten a lot of backlash from up here in the NW Division, and not only from the ARES/Winlink folks. There are other wide-band groups out there upset as well.

This is all due to Lor's comments sent out to all the Winlink users, but it has also stirred up a hornet's nest in the entire digital community.

73;
Mike
W7VO
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