The ARRL Board’s Executive Committee meets on Saturday, October 4, and the draft agenda has been published. Below, I’ve highlighted some of the items on the agenda that are of interest to me.
Among the new items to be considered are:
- 4.1.1. Continuation of Evaluation of Strategies to Improve the FCC Amateur Radio Enforcement Program.
- 4.1.3. Proposal for Modification of FCC Rules for licensing of FEMA stations and use of Special Call Signs Denoting FEMA (akin to Milrec or Club Station Licensing).
Ongoing items include:
- 4.2.1. RM-11708; ARRL Petition for Rule Making to delete restrictions on symbol rates for data communications and to establish a 2.8 kilohertz maximum occupied bandwidth for data emissions below 29.7 MHz (Status report on FCC planned adjudication of Petition).
- 4.2.4. RF Lighting Device Complaint to FCC (Complaint Filed with FCC March 12, 2014; status of efforts at partnering with AM Broadcast advocates).
- 4.2.7. IB Docket 04-286, Recommendations Approved by the Advisory Committee for the 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference (ARRL Comments filed September 12, 2014).
- A bunch of items having to do with frequency allocations.
There are also a bunch of open items with no FCC action since January, 2014 Board Meeting:
- 4.3.1. ARRL Petition for Rule Making to Amend Parts 2 and 97 to Create a New MF Allocation for the Amateur Service at 472-479 kHz. (Status of 472-479 kHz Petition filed November 29, 2012); and ET Docket 12-338, Amendment of Parts 1, 2, 15, 74, 78, 87, 90 & 97 of the Commission’s Rules Regarding Implementation of the Final Acts of the World Radiocommunication Conference (Geneva 2007), Other Allocation Issues, and Related Rule Updates; (135.7-137.8 kHz allocation and 1900-2000 kHz primary allocation).
- 4.3.4. ET Docket 13-84; Reexamination of RF exposure regulations. (FCC proposal to subject the Amateur Service to a “general exemption” table for conducting a routine environmental review of a proposed new or modified station configuration; exemption criteria as the preemptive standard as against more stringent state or local criteria.)
- 4.3.6. ET Docket 13-101; Receiver Performance Standards; Technological Advisory Council White Paper (ARRL Comments filed July 22, 2013).
Finally, a bunch of miscellaneous items:
- Several antenna/RFI cases.
- Strategies for passing the “Regulatory Parity for Amateur Radio Communications Act of 2014,” which has to do with extending PRB-1 coverage to private homeowner agreeements.
- IARU business.
If any of these items is of interest to you, I’d encourage you to contact your ARRL director.
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