ARLA/CLUSTER: FCC rejeita rapidamente petições para alterações às regras do serviço de amador nos EUA

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

FCC speedily dismisses petitions to alter Amateur Service rules

Acting with near lightning speed, the FCC has dismissed two petitions for
rule making calling for separate amendments to the Part 97 Amateur Service
rules.

*Willison H. Gormly, WD0BCS*, of Des Moines, New Mexico, filed both
petitions on June 16, and the FCC turned them away on July 1.

Gormly had requested that the FCC amend Part 97.301(e) of the rules by
dividing it into separate sub-paragraphs for technician and Novice class
privileges. He had also asked the FCC to amend Part 97.305(c) to authorize
spread spectrum emissions in the 2 meter band.

"The rule changes you propose were previously rejected by the Commission,"
Scot Stone, deputy chief of the Mobility Division in the Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau, told Gormly in the FCC's dismissal letter. "Your
petitions do not demonstrate or even suggest that any relevant
circumstances have changed such as to merit reconsideration of these
decisions."

The FCC noted that while Part 97.301(e) had been divided into two
paragraphs in the past, these were consolidated when the Commission
streamlined the rules in 1999. Gormly argued that the present configuration
was confusing, but the FCC pointed out that Part 97.301 "has been in this
arrangement for a number of years without any reported difficulty."

Regarding Gormly's second petition, the Commission noted that it had sought
comment in 2004 as to whether it should expand the bands authorized for
spread spectrum to permit such emissions on the 50 MHz, 144 MHz, and 222
MHz bands. Agreeing with the majority of comments, the FCC subsequently
determined that authorizing spread spectrum was not warranted on 6 meters
and 2 meters, "because of concerns over the compatibility of spread
spectrum emission types and other Amateur radio operations in those bands,"
the FCC explained in its denial letter.

The FCC had said it was concerned about raising the noise floor on the
band, with potential adverse effects on so-called "weak signal"
communications or "otherwise affecting experimentation."
The Commission also had noted that both bands are heavily used for other
types of communication.

Fonte : The American Radio Relay League <http://www.arrl.org/>
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