Absolutely, Tom, the premise of the petition is that FCC created this problem that they need to fix by virtue of the fact that they diverged from the ARRL Petition and their own NPRM proposal, for no good reason. It is a good argument, and our main one.
 
Chris 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: frenaye@pcnet.com
To: arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org
Sent: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 10:19 AM
Subject: [arrl-odv:14887] Re: Resolution for Board Vote

At 10:02 AM 12/6/2006, w3kd@aol.com wrote:
>Is there some objective reason why 3650 is a good dividing line? If there is, 
why didn't we advocate it in our Petition or our comments in the docket 
proceeding? You see the draftsman's conundrum here. We really can't as a 
practical matter be wishy-washy at this stage of the proceeding.

QSL, makes sense.   Guess I'm reacting to the other bands where splitting at a 
35 khz point is unusual, and I'm still lobbying for more I guess!

I guess I'm in agreement with Jay that we really need to comment on the changes 
between the NPRM and the R&O, especially since they didn't raise the issue of 
expanding 80m phone/image further (nor deletion of auto-control, though I guess 
that's an oversight).    After all, they're the ones that originally declined to 
do any of this until there was broad input from amateurs - which we did gather, 
summarize and act upon...

          -- Tom


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