Texas Agency Seeks Changes to Symbol Rate Limits for Amateurs
The Texas Department of Public Safety urged the FCC to address limitations on the symbol, or baud, rate for amateur radio operators, which has been a focus of the ARRL (see 1907160016). “It is critical that our State Emergency Response…
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Teams have timely, accurate, and adequate communication flow during disasters,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 16-239: The state “relies on effective amateur radio communications to provide critical information and ground truth in areas severed from traditional modes of communications. Unfortunately, the Symbol Rate Limit rule restricts our ability to accomplish this vital task. … Eliminating the … rule will eliminate this need and allow seamless information flow during training, planning, responding to, and recovering from disasters.”