Submitted 4 days ago by BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio
https://www.arrl.org/news/view/fcc-initiates-broad-inquiry-on-rules-to-delete-or-amend
In a Public Notice titled “In Re: Delete, Delete, Delete,” issued on March 12, 2025, the FCC is soliciting public input on any FCC rules in any service that members of the public believe should be deleted or modified “for the purpose of alleviating unnecessary regulatory burdens.”
Just think of how much money they can make by selling ham frequencies…
That’s what I warned everyone about during our weekly net. We’re tiny fish compared to the telecom giants. Everything above 6 meters is in jeopardy.
I’d wonder if the existing amateur presence would make the bands hard to sell for “pollution risk”. There’s a lot of kit in circulation, and getting it off the market, including secondhand, would be difficult.
Yeah, they could blow a lot of time and money on FCC enforcement, but it feels like trying to unring a bell. As a telecom, would you be willing to pay for (for example) 148MHz on just the promise the existing users were displaced on paper? That doesn’t mean much when some untrained/curious person finds kit at the Goodwill and tries it out in the middle of your service range.
Of course, obviously fight for every nanometre of spectrum, but that’s probably a legit argument against reclassification: all they’d get is damaged goods of low resale value.
According to the OMs in our area, real ham radio is HF. So we’re good.
Get rid of the baud rate limits on VHF and 70cm.
K3LOE@lemmy.radio 19 hours ago
So what are people writing about? Please share your comments and thoughts.
The ARRL post leaves a lot to be desired; I tried to capture the most basic information about this here:
medium.com/…/the-arrl-wont-save-the-waves-write-y…