Dave is, as usual, correct. We don't disagree, but I insufficiently expressed the points he has made. I had been asked by the IARU officers to contribute to a critique of our effort, and I felt that I owed the Board the benefit of that candid critique. That said, there are good elements to an otherwise disappointing outcome, and Dave has identified the biggest one. These elements got lost in my critique. Whatever the FCC ultimately does at 5 MHz, if past form holds, it will not be done soon. We have time and opportunity to make the case we want. 73, Brennan T. Price, N4QX Chief Technology Officer American Radio Relay League PO Box 3470 Oakton VA 22124-9470 Tel +1 860 594-0247 ________________________________________ From: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 8:08 To: Price, Brennan, N4QX; arrl-odv Cc: Kustosik, Lisa, KA1UFZ Subject: RE: Document 10 CTO Brennan has provided a timely and comprehensive report for the Board meeting that includes such kind words about me that it seems churlish to disagree with him to some extent, but I will anyway because it affects how you might explain the 5 MHz situation to your members. Brennan comments that the WRC-15 allocation is just 1 kHz more than what US amateurs can access now. Mathematically that's true, but as a practical matter it represents much more of an improvement because we are now confined to the center frequency on each of the five channels. This is a severe limitation for narrowband modes such as CW and PSK31. At this point it is impossible to predict what US amateurs eventually will have as a 5 MHz allocation. The one thing that can be predicted with confidence is that it will be a long time before we know the answer. Consider that the US has not yet fully implemented the WRC decisions of 2007, much less 2012. 73, Dave K1ZZ ________________________________________ From: arrl-odv [arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org] on behalf of Price, Brennan, N4QX Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 10:24 PM To: arrl-odv Cc: Kustosik, Lisa, KA1UFZ Subject: [arrl-odv:24924] Document 10 CTO Please find attached my report to the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Board Directors. Also attached is a galley proof of Dave Sumner's editorial to be published in the February 2016 QST. I reference both the January and February editorials in the opening paragraph of my report. They are worth an independent read. 73 de Brennan N4QX Brennan T. Price, N4QX Chief Technology Officer American Radio Relay League PO Box 3470 Oakton VA 22124-9470 Tel +1 860 594-0247