The ARRL Executive Committee is set to meet this Saturday and take up a wide variety of topics. The agenda makes for some interesting reading. Some of the more interesting items (to me, at least) include:
- 4.1.4. Preparation and filing of a petition for rulemaking to effect changes in the 80 and 75-meter RTTY/data and phone/image subbands; to restore 80-meter frequency privileges for certain license classes; to shift the 80-meter automatically controlled digital station band segment; and to authorize Novice and Technician class licensees to utilize RTTY/data emissions in certain bands. (Discussion of status and timing of preparation of Petition called for by Minute 32 of the July, 2015 Board Meeting.)
- 4.2.1. RF Lighting Device Complaints to FCC (Status of efforts to cause FCC enforcement of overpower RF lighting ballast devices; report on filed and planned future complaints aimed at ballast importers and retailers and large consumer retailers of RF lighting devices intended for industrial applications only).
- 4.3.8. 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. ARRL Comments filed 9/3/2013 and Ex Parte to WTB made on 5/13/2014).
As always, if you have any input on these items, or any amateur radio issues, get in touch with your division director.
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