On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Michael Fox - N6MEF n6mef@mefox.org wrote:
They don't enforce judgement calls. So is it "good engineering and amateur practice" (or whatever that rule says) if I'm trying to use 25kHz and you decide you need the whole band? I guess that depends on whether they ask me or you. Were you intentionally interfering with me? Even after I let you know I was there? In our case, it was coordination vs. coordination. The rogue folks just created their own coordinating body so they could coordinate whatever they wanted, whether it made sense or not, and then claim, "hey, we're coordinated!". Never mind that others had been there for years and were active stations prior. (In one case, it was a DX spotting node for all of NorCal run by, believe or not, the ARRL Pacific Division Director!) The ARRL refused to do anything (as usual). And, since the FCC rules don't say anything about timeline, making a decision would require the application of some common sense. Evidently that's not available at the FCC.
For U.S. consumption:
Neither the ARRL nor local coordinating bodies have any enforcement authority. The FCC is the enforcement body. The others only make recommendations and document their processes. The rule, only says that for repeater operation, the FCC can use coordination by a recognized local coordinator to determine who needs to mitigate *harmful* interference.
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