Amateur Radio Group Seeks Baud Rate Change
An American Radio Relay League (ARRL) representative spoke with an FCC Wireless Bureau staffer on the group’s long-standing request that the agency address limits on the symbol, or baud, rate for amateur communications (see 1907160016). “Removing the limitation on symbol…
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rate would measurably improve spectrum efficiency and incentivize innovation by allowing more data to be transmitted within each signal without increasing bandwidth from that currently used,” said a filing posted Thursday in docket 16-239. “Doing so also would open up spectrum capacity for other users by shortening the time needed to transmit each message,” ARRL said.