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ARRL Asks Carr Aide to Ease Baud Rate Limits

ARRL representatives asked an aide to FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr to address limits on the symbol, or baud, rate for amateur communications (see 1907160016). “ARRL and most stakeholders favor both deleting the symbol rate and replacing it with a 2.8…

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kHz individual signal bandwidth limit,” said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 16-239. “This would maintain the status quo with regard to the signal bandwidth commonly employed by radio amateurs on these frequencies while removing the limitation on baud rate that impairs spectrum efficiency and innovation by capping the amount of data transmitted within each signal,” ARRL said. The net effect would be to “increase spectrum efficiency by allowing higher baud rates, which would lessen the time needed to transmit a given message,” the group said.