Radio Amateurs Not Affected by Narrowbanding Requirements

[ARRL]

The FCC released a Public Notice on January 6, reminding land mobile licensees, frequency coordinators and equipment manufacturers that they have less than one year to transition to narrowband operations in the 150-174 and 421-512 MHz bands. While the latter frequency range includes amateur service allocations, radio amateurs are not affected by the narrowbanding requirement. Land mobile operat...





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[KingCobra_CDX882]

Why would Ham ops be required to use newer requirements..

Reasoning to do for all the other services is for them to get more channels..
Given ham frequency allocations remain un changed there is no advantage for gov/fcc to require it

 

[hookedon6]

most of the people crying and trying to demand the narrowbanding of the 2 meter repeaters, are the same folks that can't get a co-ordinated split for their "wacker" repeaters.

the SAME type people that ARE attempting to use the 2 meter SIMPLEX freqs for repeater ops,..... and then whining about being "interfered" with!



e'ff 'em

 

[Lefty]

The vast majority of 2M repeaters (along with 1.2M, and 70cm) are under utilized as it is.
In my zip code, there are over 100 licensed Hams and MAYBE <1% have every banged a repeater much less use them.

 

[office888]

Meanwhile, someone is tuning up a TNT transmitter on 40m somewhere...

 

[hookedon6]

actually,..... he's tuning on 10 meters,.................. but ya can still hear it on 40

 

[Lefty]

actually,..... he's tuning on 10 meters,.................. but ya can still hear it on 40

Must be a Siltronix. :w00t:

 

[office888]

actually,..... he's tuning on 10 meters,.................. but ya can still hear it on 40

His aggressive key action is vibrating the tuning coil and causing spurious emissions.