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FCC Seeks Comments on Amateur 5 MHz (60 Meters) Allocation

by k4sac @ Wednesday, June 16th, 2010. Tags: ,
Filed under FCC, emergency

The FCC has released a NPRM ET Docket 10-98 proposing to modify the allocations on the 60 meter band. Comments must be filed by July 15th, 2010. reply comments must be filed by July 30th, 2010. The 60 meter band is from 5060-5450khz. There are 5 channels allocated on a secondary basis to ham radio [...]

FCC releases National Broadband Plan

by k4sac @ Saturday, March 20th, 2010. Tags: , , ,
Filed under ARRL, FCC

On March 16th, the FCC released its report entitled Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan. The FCC unveiled this plan to Congress, calling it “an ambitious agenda for connecting all corners of the nation while transforming the economy and society with the communications network of the future — robust, affordable Internet” According to the FCC [...]

Radio Spectrum Inventory Act

by k4sac @ Thursday, July 16th, 2009. Tags:
Filed under FCC, NTIA

This is something that has been rumored to be in the works for a while, and was expected to show up. Senators Democrat John Kerry of Massachusetts and Republican Olympia Snowe of Maine have introduced a bill in the Senate that mandate an inventory of radio spectrum between 300 Mhz and 3.5 Ghz. The Radio [...]

FCC and warrantless searches

by k4sac @ Thursday, May 21st, 2009. Tags:
Filed under FCC

As most ham radio operators know, and as some pirate radio stations have found out, the FCC enjoys broad power to come into your house and “inspect” your equipment. The FCC  doesn’t need a warrant to come in and “inspect” your ham equipment, although if they intend on seizing equipment, they need to work with [...]

FCC files petition for expedited rulemaking against towers

by k4sac @ Friday, May 1st, 2009. Tags:
Filed under FCC, antennas

On April 14, 2009 the FCC in concert with bird organizations has filed a petition for expedited rulemaking to protect birds from towers You can download the PDF here Specifically, Petitioners request that the FCC undertake the following actions: · Amend the Commission’s regulations that implement NEPA, “consistent with Council on Environmental Quality regulations and [...]

440 Mhz band in danger again

by k4sac @ Tuesday, April 14th, 2009. Tags: ,
Filed under FCC

The FCC has released a Notice of Proposed Rule Making ET Docket No. 09-36  RM-11404 The matter at hand is the Amendment of Parts 2 and 95 of the Commission’s Rules to Provide Additional Spectrum for the Medical Device Radiocommunication Service in the 413-457 MHz band (which covers the ham radio 420-450 band) The purpose [...]

Radio Spectrum Inventory Act

by k4sac @ Saturday, March 28th, 2009. Tags: ,
Filed under FCC, NTIA

There has been a new bill introduced in the Senate called the Radio Spectrum Inventory Act. This act which was sponsered by John Kerry of Mass. and Olympia Snowe of Maine, would require  all frequencies between 300Mhz and 3.5Ghz to be inventoried by the NTIA and the FCC . The law will require that 180 [...]

Beacon system-Service or QRM?

by k4sac @ Monday, March 9th, 2009. Tags: ,
Filed under ARRL, FCC, beacons, contests, dx, space, sunspots

NCDXF beacon system is a set of beacons, scattered around the world, that operate to informs hams of potential propagation openings. Each beacon transmits every three minutes, day and night. A transmission consists of the callsign of the beacon sent at 22 words per minute followed by four one-second dashes. The callsign and the first [...]

ARRL wins versus BPL and FCC???

by k4sac @ Tuesday, July 1st, 2008. Tags: ,
Filed under BPL

On October 23rd, 2007, The ARRL argued case # 06-1343 at the United Stated Court of Appeals (District of Columbia district) on the FCC’s handling of the BPL issue. On April 25th, 2008 the Court ruled on the matter. According to the ruling found here (Adobe acrobat reader required) the ARRL met the burden of [...]

Ham radio, and licensing

by k4sac @ Monday, June 16th, 2008. Tags: , , ,
Filed under ham radio

I was discussing how licensing has changed over the years. I was 13 years old when I got my first ticket in 1974, I had to drive about a 4 hour drive to Indianapolis, IN to take my exam in front of an FCC examiner. The question pool was secret, you had to have the [...]

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