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   ARLB032 ARRL Files Erratum to "Symbol Rate" Petition for Rule Making   
      
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   ARRL Bulletin 32  ARLB032   
   > From ARRL Headquarters   
   Newington CT  December 2, 2013   
   To all radio amateurs   
      
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   ARLB032 ARRL Files Erratum to "Symbol Rate" Petition for Rule Making   
      
   The ARRL has filed an Erratum with the FCC to correct an error in   
   its "symbol rate" Petition for Rule Making (PRM), filed November 15   
   with the FCC and put on public notice for comment as RM-11708 a few   
   days later. The League's petition asks the FCC to delete the symbol   
   rate limit in ??97.307(f) of its Amateur Service rules and replace it   
   with a maximum bandwidth for data emissions of 2.8 kHz on amateur   
   frequencies below 29.7 MHz. The Erratum, filed November 26, removes   
   an erroneous reference in the appendix at ??97.307(f)(3) to   
   "unspecified digital codes" and includes a corrected appendix.   
      
   "In one respect the criticism being voiced about our RM-11708   
   petition has some merit," said ARRL CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ. "This is   
   with regard to the addition of 'unspecified digital codes' language   
   to ??97.307(f)(3). This change is not discussed at all in the body of   
   the petition and was not intended to be included in the proposal."   
   The Erratum "relates only to the Appendix as originally filed, and   
   only with respect to the proposed revised text of ??97.307(f)(3),"   
   the League said. "The remainder of the Petition was correct as filed."   
      
   The revised proposed ??97.307(f)(3) will read: "Only a RTTY or data   
   emission using a specified digital code listed in ??97.309(a) of   
   this part may be transmitted. The authorized bandwidth is 2.8 kHz."   
   Sumner pointed out that in 1995 the FCC clarified that "specified   
   digital code" is any digital code that has its technical   
   characteristics publicly documented.   
      
   "All of us who reviewed the draft and missed this are deeply sorry   
   for the confusion thus caused," Sumner said.   
      
   In its petition, the ARRL said that the changes it is proposing   
   "would, in the aggregate, relieve the Amateur Service of outdated,   
   1980s-era restrictions that presently hamper or preclude Amateur   
   Radio experimentation with modern high frequency (HF) and other data   
   transmission protocols."   
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