In a message dated 8/14/02 10:13:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ki4la@arrl.org writes:

64. On motion of Mr. Frenaye, seconded by Mr. Stinson, it was VOTED that at the next practical opportunity the ARRL shall petition the FCC to revise Part 97 to regulate subbands by signal bandwidth instead of by mode.

I am being kindly lobbied over Minute 64. Will this have the effect of killing AM on the bands or not? 73 Gary, Paul Rinaldo and I are beginning to struggle with the massive Part 97 changes that are called for by this motion. I think it fair to say that we are not in that process violating the cardinal rule that one should not ever take anything away from a ham by regulation, learned the hard way in the course of incentive licensing. What you all ultimately authorize to be filed may be a different thing entirely, but at this stage, elimination of AM is not the plan. Chris