Amateurs Meet With Gomez Aide on Proposed Rule Changes
The National Association for Amateur Radio (ARRL) met with an aide to FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez to ask for action on several proposals before the commission. They discussed “the need to modernize the amateur service rules (Part 97) to strengthen the basis and flexibility needed to foster experimentation with modern digital techniques and to advance skills in both communication and technical development,” said a filing last week in 25-133 and other dockets.
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
ARRL supports rules allowing technician-class licensees “to employ digital and voice modes on parts of the amateur … bands capable of local, regional, and worldwide communication currently not available to them,” the filing said. The group also supports “making related subband adjustments based upon today’s technologies, band usage and occupancy.”