Many of us commented on both proposals and both proposals were beat hard into the ground. 11305's any mode, any bandwidth, anywhere, in my opinion, never got off the ground. The voice expansion was already blessed by the FCC two years prior.
No where's near true Petee !!!
The original FCC blessing would have given us 25Khz more on 75.(Down to 3725)
No where's near the expansion we got.
And, on good authority, as part of the group, I know for a fact our 11305 had a lot to do with the LARGER phone expansions.Identify your source; the R&O never made any mention of RM-11305 or it's proposed goals of "any mode, any bandwidth, anywhere".
The withdrawal wasn't an admission of defeat but rather an acknowlegment to the FCC that the announced R&O went a good way toward our desires and in light of the feedback to BOTH proposals we'd withdraw. This was ment to show we are willing to work with the FCC when they make common sense decisions such as they did.
To continue to support the ARRL is fine.... but get ur facts and history straight.
The novice refarming WAS a good 2 years before 11305 true. But it did not provide the magnitude of change initiated by 11305 and others.
I stand by what I said. Based on 11305's original stated goals in its proposal, it never got off the ground. The fact that the FCC's final ruling expanded the phone bands further from the original agreement, could be based on the Comments submitted to the R&O by many people or to the FCC's own view that expansion of the phone band the way they saw it, could lead to an easier future implementation of "regulation by bandwidth".
Of course, the current gain was not without pain:
The big Extra Class phone band comes at the expense of General and Advanced CW operators, and at the expense of all RTTY/data operators. Legally, a CW traffic net made up of Extra Class operators could just stay put above 3600 kHz. However, RTTY/data operators have no option. They must relocate below 3600 kHz, and of course most CW nets will do so as well in order to avoid phone interference and so as not to exclude their General and Advanced members.
A particular problem for the users of automatically controlled digital stations is that the frequencies that no longer will be available for RTTY/data emission include 3620-3635 kHz, where automatic control of RTTY/data has been permitted. A later amendment to the ruling moved 3620-3635 activity moved this down to 3585-3600 to further eat into the CW segment.