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Amateur Radio Still Important to Public Safety, ARRL Says

ARRL directors met FCC Public Safety Bureau staff, including on an ongoing fight over limitations on the symbol, or baud, rate applicable to data emissions (see 1907160016). "Amateur Radio Service continues to fulfill the need for emergency and disaster communications,”…

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said a filing posted Tuesday in docket 16-239. Amateurs “cannot participate in some of these emergency communications activities because of an outdated rule limiting the permissible ‘symbol rate’ used in digital communications.”