[HQRP] [Fwd: ARLB028 FCC proposes two new amateur bands!]

[Glen Reid]

Kudos to ARRL

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ARRL Web site wrote:
> 
> SB QST @ ARL $ARLB028
> ARLB028 FCC proposes two new amateur bands!
> 
> ZCZC AG28
> QST de W1AW
> ARRL Bulletin 28  ARLB028
> >From ARRL Headquarters
> Newington CT  May 10, 2002
> To all radio amateurs
> 
> SB QST ARL ARLB028
> ARLB028 FCC proposes two new amateur bands!
> 
> Good news for ham radio this week! FCC has proposed going along with
> ARRL's request for a new domestic (US-only), secondary HF allocation
> at 5.25 to 5.4 MHz. The FCC also is ready to permit operation on a
> 136-kHz ''sliver band'' in the low-frequency (LF) region. And, in
> response to a third ARRL request, the FCC has proposed elevating
> Amateur Radio to primary status at 2400 to 2402 MHz.
> 
> ''I'm just as tickled as I can be,'' ARRL President Jim Haynie, W5JBP,
> said upon hearing the news. ''This is a classic example of our ARRL
> at work.''
> 
> The FCC voted unanimously May 2 to adopt the Notice of Proposed
> Rulemaking in ET Docket 02-98. The Commission released a Public
> Notice May 9, and the NPRM is expected to be released soon. A
> comment deadline will be announced as soon as it's available.
> 
> The FCC said the new 5-MHz band would help amateurs ''better match
> their choice of frequency to existing propagation conditions.'' The
> band, if approved, would be the first new amateur HF allocation
> since World Administrative Radio Conference 1979 gave amateurs 30,
> 17 and 12 meters--the so-called ''WARC Bands.'' Assuming the 5-MHz
> band eventually is authorized, it could be a few years before it
> actually becomes available.
> 
> The League said its successful WA2XSY experiments demonstrated that
> amateurs can coexist with current users and that the band is very
> suitable for US-to-Caribbean paths. In comparisons with 80 and 40
> meters, the WA2XSY operation also showed the 60-meter band to be the
> most reliable of the three. The ARRL also argued that a new 150-kHz
> allocation at 5 MHz could relieve periodic overcrowding on 80 and
> 40.
> 
> If allocated to amateurs on a secondary basis, hams would have to
> avoid interfering with--and accept interference from--current
> occupants of the spectrum, as they already do on 30 meters. The band
> 5.250 to 5.450 MHz now is allocated to Fixed and Mobile services on
> a co-primary basis in all three ITU regions.
> 
> The ARRL asked the FCC for two LF allocations in October 1998--135.7
> to 137.8 kHz and 160 to 190 kHz. The FCC said its action on one part
> of that LF request proposes changes that would enhance the ability
> of amateur radio operators to conduct technical experiments,
> including propagation and antenna design experiments, in the 'low
> frequency' (LF) range of the radio spectrum.''
> 
> Several countries in Europe and elsewhere already have 136-kHz
> amateur allocations. The first amateur transatlantic contact on the
> band was recorded in February 2001.
> 
> Hams would be secondary to the Fixed and Maritime Mobile services in
> the 136-kHz allocation. The League said its engineering surveys
> suggest that hams could operate without causing problems to power
> line carrier (PLC) systems already active in that vicinity or to
> government assignments. Unallocated Part 15 PLC systems are used by
> electric utilities to send control signals, data and voice.
> 
> The FCC said its proposal to upgrade the Amateur Service allocation
> at 2400 to 2402 MHz to primary ''seeks to protect current amateur use
> of this band.'' Hams have shared their other 2.4 GHz spectrum on a
> secondary basis with government users.
> 
> Amateurs already are primary at 2390 to 2400 and from 2402 to 2417
> MHz. The ARRL has said primary status in the intervening spectrum
> slice was needed ''to provide some assurances of future occupancy of
> the band segments for the next generation of amateur satellites.''
> 
> The ARRL has expressed its belief that hams can continue to
> accommodate Part 15 and Part 18 devices at 2.4 GHz.
> NNNN
> /EX

-- 
GLEN (Just Call Me "Buck") REID
...in the beautiful hill country of TEXAS...
Email:  k5fx@arrl.net

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