CQ Amateur Radio

ZERO BIAS: A CQ Editorial

The ARRL’s HF Band Planning Committee released a draft in early February of its proposals for realigning both FCC allocations on 80 meters and informal band plan changes on most other HF bands (see details of the plan on page 9). The proposal is really intended to address three separate issues, as well as three pending rule-making proposals the League has filed with the FCC, at least one of which is nearly ready to start collecting Social Security. The committee provided a two-week comment period, which will be expired by the time you read this, but we’ll ignore the calendar and comment anyway.

We are generally supportive of two elements of the band plan proposal, have questions about the third and have to wonder if the whole thing is

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