From the ARRL website:
Amateur Community Transitions Smoothly to New AllocationsWith some confusion but little fanfare, the amateur community took occupancy of more commodious HF phone subbands as the so-called "omnibus" Report and Order (R&O) in WT Docket 04-140 kicked in December 15 at one minute past midnight Eastern Time. Among other things, the wide-ranging R&O inflated the overall phone allocations on 75 and 40 meters and provided Generals with a little additional phone spectrum on 15 meters...
"It's just like up the band," quipped one operator attempting a QSO in the expanded portion of the 40-meter phone band quipped. "It's too crowded down here!"
No FCC Response to League's Eleventh-Hour PetitionThe FCC so far has not acted on the League's Petition for Partial Reconsideration, filed earlier this week, calling on the Commission to postpone the allocation change for 3600 to 3635 kHz while it considers a request to maintain the status quo in that segment.
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/12/15/101/?nc=1
