September 2016 QST's cover story is Amateur Radio Public Service, An inside look at the Cascadia Rising exercise. The article is written by the Section Managers of Oregon and Western Washington. (It does not mention the NTS activity.)

On page 68, under the subtitle Lessons Learned, is the following:

Both Washington and Oregon are strong Winlink system users, but are limited by PACTOR 3 technology that is just too slow to accommodate the heavy volumes of traffic we anticipate. We are hopeful that the FCC will approve the use of PACTOR 4 soon. Plans need to be made to fund upgrades to our aging PACTOR 3 modems.

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I hope that the board will also work toward the Section Manager's goal by not encumbering the present FCC proposal to eliminate symbol rate with unnecessary requests for bandwidth limits.

73,

Dick Norton, N6AA