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KØHB wrote:
Iitoi wrote:
80M and 40M phone band expansion

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_publi...C-06-149A1.doc

Why will they go "balistic" (maybe you meant "ballistic")?

I don't see any reason to go ballistic.

I can still operate CW on all the freqs I could before,

In theory, yes.

But in practice, how much CW operation actually happens in the US
'phone/image subbands? Practically none that I can hear.

How much happened in the Novice subbands?

I've picked up
some additional phone spectrum on a couple of crowded bands (hopefully
in time for SS phone), and all my Novice and Tech (w/Morse test)
friends gained a new bunch of HF spectrum.

Yup.

What's to "bo balistic" about?

Nothing I can see. But there are some other things to consider:

- I don't think FCC will do much with "regulation by bandwidth". This
R&O reinforces the basic subbands-by-mode idea, and just moves the
dividing line.

I wasn't thrilled with that.

- I don't think the FCC will do anything with CTT's "no
subbands-by-mode" proposal, for the same reasons.

- The available space for *data* modes is decreased.

- The foreign 'phones will move even lower in the band, to get away
from USA 'phone QRM.

Fine. More room for emcomm.

- We'll probably hear more "hi-fi SSB" and AM on 75 meters, because
there will be more room for them.

Invoke your filter and you won't hear much of it.

I like the Alaskan Freq amendment. It lets amateurs try out the freq
in drills and tests. In the absense of a code-free HF license, my
personal opinion is that ALL licensed amateurs have access to the 5MHz
frequencies for emergencies, drills and tests.