HRN 500🎇: From 300 to 2.8k In (only) 38 Years!

Happy Episode 500, everybody!

And now back to work.

The FCC is about to release a Report and Order abolishing the antiquated 300 ‘baud’ limit on data rates on the HF bands, replacing it with a 2.8 kHz bandwidth cap instead . The draft R&O was released last week, and Gary K4AAQ picks it apart. It should be finalized at the Commission meeting on November 15, 10:30 am Eastern, with video available live (and on Memorex for later).

In the last half of the episode, Gary opens up the Discord and chats with Jeff N4POD, and a brief visit with David W0DHG

LINKS:

• Gary’s annotated PDF of the R&O

• FCC November 15 Meeting Annoucement, Video Link

• ARRL’s 2005 Regulation by Bandwidth petition to the FCC (pdf)

  • Quote from the petition: The simplest means of streamlining the Commission’s rules, while at the same time providing maximum flexibility for the incorporation of new digital communications looking forward to the next decade, and to protect ongoing Amateur communications, is to provide for band segmentation by bandwidth rather than by emission mode in the Part 97 Rules. (emphasis added)

HRN 499: K1N Navassa — the YouTube Movie

DXer and video producer Bob Allphin K4UEE released the K1N Navssa DXpedition documentary on DVD in 2015, a few months after the highly successful DXpedition itself. HamRadioNow’s Gary K4AAQ did the editing and voiceover for the production. DVD sales were good enough, but now it’s time to release the program to the world on YouTube, free to watch for everyone. Yep, that’s the link, right here.

In this episode, Bob and Gary chat about the show, and about some of the DXpeditions Bob has been on, particularly the Bouvet Island attempt he led that had to abort, and the subsequent attempt that was only partially successful. And Bob announces that he’ll be offering a clearance sale of his remaining DVDs - 3 for the price of 1 - coming soon to his web site.

Before that, though, NorCal Host Jim NO1PC gives us a short tour of this weekend’s Pacificon hamfest, which was reduced in size some from the recent past.

Links:

• K4UEE’s website

• James Brooks documentary collection on Vimeo

• ClubLog’s Most Wanted DX Entity list

HRN 498: The 60 Meter Q-File (Gary's Genius Plan)

Gary’s Genius Plan for 60 Meters gets filed with the FCC. He reads it to you.

And Gary K4AAQ notices that ICOM has added FM to their 3rd Generation D-STAR Repeaters. He thought he saw that they were doing a D-Fuzion thing, with DV/Analog IN, Analog OUT, but no… as he reads it live, he discovered that it was an either/or thing… DV or FM, but no Fuzion. So close.

LINKS:

• File your comments here, on the ECFS site

• Review everybody else’s comments here, also on the ECFS site

• HamRadioNow’s YouTube Playlist of our previous shows on 60 meters (way more than you think)

• FCC NPRM with Gary’s Notes (pdf)

• Gary’s Genius Plan CHART (pdf)

• Gary’s Comments (with the USa fixed)