At 12:12 PM 3/30/2017, Christopher Imlay wrote:
>Yes, the bottom line is that we got everything we asked for with respect to the new bands, except that there will be a 30-day, negative option notification requirement to UTC by all hams who wish to use this band. We will have a strategy to make sure that the notifications get made quickly by a lot of hams all at once, thus to ensure that no later PLC systems can be established that would be entitled to protection from amateur operation in the new bands.Â
>The only downside of this order is the preservation of ocean buoys in the great lakes and open ocean at up to 8 watts at 1900-2000 kHz. That was unexpected, but we do get unfettered access to this band and the threat of reallocation is now gone, so there is some benefit there also.
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>Overall, this is a big win for ARRL and for Amateur Radio, despite the delay in getting it to the finish line.

Hey Chris -

Do we need to provide some guidance to people who will want to run SSB or AM (or even Pactor 3/4) on our new 2.1 khz wide 2200 meter band?

I don't think many people will have transmitters with narrow transmit filters.

Plus, one AM signal will just about fill up our new 7 khz wide 630m band.

Or do you consider this a band planning issue? :-)

    -- Tom


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