http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/attachments\/view\/News\/87580<\/a> .<\/p>\nThe League said that 14 years of Amateur Radio experience using the
\nfive discrete 5-MHz channels have shown that hams can get along well
\nwith primary users at 5 MHz, while complying with the regulations
\nestablished for their use. “Neither ARRL, nor, apparently, NTIA is
\naware of a single reported instance of interference to a federal
\nuser by a radio amateur operating at 5 MHz to date,” ARRL said in
\nits petition. NTIA – the National Telecommunications and Information
\nAdministration, which regulates federal spectrum – initially
\nproposed the five channels for Amateur Radio use. In recent years,
\nAmateur Radio has cooperated with federal users such as FEMA in
\nconducting communication interoperability exercises.<\/p>\n
“While the Amateur Radio community is grateful to the Commission and
\nto NTIA for the accommodation over the past 14 years of some access
\nto the 5-MHz band, the five channels are, simply stated, completely
\ninadequate to accommodate the emergency preparedness needs of the
\nAmateur Service in this HF frequency range,” ARRL said, adding that
\nthe five 2.8-kHz wide channels “have not provided sufficient
\ncapacity to enable competent emergency preparedness and disaster
\nrelief capability.”<\/p>\n
Access even to the tiny 15-kHz wide band adopted at WRC-15 would
\n“radically improve the current, very limited capacity of the Amateur
\nService in the United States to address emergencies and disaster
\nrelief,” ARRL said. “This is most notably true in the Caribbean
\nBasin, but the same effect will be realized elsewhere as well, at
\nall times of the day and night, and at all times of the sunspot
\ncycle.”<\/p>\n
In its Petition, ARRL also called upon the FCC to retain the same
\nservice rules now governing the five channels for the new band. The
\nWRC-15 Final Acts stipulated a power limit of 15 W effective
\nisotropic radiated power (EIRP), which the League said “completely
\ndefeats the entire premise for the allocation in the first place.”<\/p>\n
“For precisely the same reasons that the Commission consented to a
\npower increase on the five channels as recently as 2011 [from 50 W
\nPEP ERP to 100 W PEP ERP], the Commission should permit a power
\nlevel of 100 W PEP ERP, assuming use of a 0 dBd gain antenna, in the
\ncontiguous 60-meter band,” ARRL said. “To impose the power limit
\nadopted at WRC-15 for the contiguous band would render the band
\nunsuitable for emergency and public service communications.”<\/p>\n
ARRL pointed out that the ITU Radio Regulations permit assignments
\nthat are at variance with the International Table of Allocations,
\nprovided a non-interference condition is attached, limiting the use
\nof such an assignment relative to stations operating in accordance
\nwith the Table.<\/p>\n
The League asked that General class or higher licensees be permitted
\nto use the band. The FCC will not invite comments on the League’s
\nPetition until it puts it on public notice and assigns a Rule Making
\n(RM) number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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