hi and 73's

[Paul L Rinaldo]

Allan,

The petition submitted by ARRL was intended to get the allocation(s), not
change the rules on who can operate on which frequency. Maybe that sounds
strange but here is the background.

The FCC is divided into several Offices and Bureaus. The Office of
Engineering and Technology (OET) does allocations. The Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) writes the rules what amateurs of various
classes can do within the amateur bands. It is preferable not to mix the
two. The ARRL petition was written with OET in mind--that is get the
135.7-137.8 kHz and 160-190 kHz allocated to the Amateur Radio Service. OET
will not address which amateurs can operate on these proposed bands or what
they can transmit on them. 

So if the OET grants us the allocations, the bands could be used by
Generals and above, as there is no petition to change what bands Novices
and Techs can operate on because that would be a separate action by WTB. 

You will have an opportunity to comment to the FCC when they publish a
Notice of Proposed Rule Making. 
 
Paul Rinaldo, W4RI
Manager, Technical Relations, ARRL
(My night job is President, AMRAD)

At 10:26 AM 2/7/2002 -0800, allan egleston wrote:
>Hello, first have a number of questions. 1 Which class of licensee would
>be authorised to use these lf and vlf frequencies. Would technician
>class of operators be phroibited from using these freqs?2:  I live in a
>small lot house, and large antennas would be challenging for me, I also
>live near a power line ( a few feet in the back yard along the road
>behind me) This wouuld give me problems with power line harmonics. Good
>luck with your endeavors. It would be fun to get ham radio on medium
>wave between 530 and 1700 khz as secondary operations, when pigs fly! I
>would like to see part 15 ops and hams exist together. 73's and best
>wishes, Allan Egleston, kf6uxj.
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