ARRL Joins Members in Opposing Shortwave Modernization Coalition Petition
ARRL opposed an April petition by the Shortwave Modernization Coalition (SMC) asking the FCC to launch a rulemaking to amend its eligibility and technical rules for industrial/business pool licensees to authorize licensed use of frequencies above 2 MHz and below…
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25 MHz for fixed, long-distance, non-voice communications. Hundreds of amateur operators also expressed concerns (see [2307270035). “Many of the subject Part 90 bands are immediately adjacent or very near to spectrum bands that are allocated to the Amateur Radio Service on a primary basis,” said a filing Wednesday in RM-11953. “These bands are very heavily used for worldwide communication by Amateur Radio licensees employing significantly less power than that proposed by SMC for purposes that include vital support during disaster recovery and mitigation, technical and scientific experiments, and propagation studies,” ARRL said.