No Consensus Reached in Amateur Radio Proceeding, ARRL Tells FCC
ARRL told the FCC it has been unable to reach agreement in a proceeding that proposes to remove limitations on the symbol, or baud, rate, applicable to data emissions in some amateur bands. In March, the amateur radio operator group…
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asked to pause the proceeding (see 1903280059). “When this process began, we expressed our intention to reach a common understanding of issues and to agree on their resolution insofar as possible.” ARRL said in a final report posted Monday in RM-11831. “At the beginning of our meetings there emerged consensus on the issues to be discussed,” the group said: “By the end, the parties had reached consensus on some of the issues, but not all. Despite our best efforts, some of the parties did not agree to submit to the Commission any of the recommendations on which there had been an apparent consensus, having negotiated with an ‘all or nothing’ approach.” More than 600, mostly amateur, radio operators, filed in the proceeding.