[Ground-station] FCC Filing for 219 MHz rules changes from ORI

[A. C.]

Any ideas about what's being planned for the 33cm band?

Adrian
KJ6GYC

On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 11:17 AM Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station
<ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:

> Thank you to the many people that have helped with this effort. Open
> Research Institute (ORI) has filed the first of what might be several
> comments and proposed rules making efforts to the FCC about reforming
> amateur radio use of the 219 MHz band.
>
> https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/search-filings/filing/10329271641887
>
> The list of folks that have contributed and supported this effort to
> renovate 219 MHz for actual amateur radio use is quite long. This filing
> and any that follow are the result of over a year of work. Thank you
> especially to Mike McGinty, ARRL advisors, and Justin Overfelt.
>
> If you would like to help?
>
> 1) Please use this comment to make your own similar request under this
> particular proceeding. This is a "what regulations do you want to delete?"
> type of call. As with many FCC calls for comment, it will be dominated by
> commercial interests. Anything from amateur radio will stand out. The
> deadline for comments is 11 April 2025. Speak simply and directly. We'd
> like to use this band without unnecessary and burdensome requirements.
>
> 2) Please be ready to file a "reply" comment after the 11 April 2025
> deadline. This is a chance for you to say "I agree with this and support
> this."
>
> We are not asking to change the fundamental nature of the band. Fixed
> digital messaging forwarding is super exciting these days because of SDRs,
> mesh networking, and all sorts of amazing protocol work available to us. We
> decided to simply ask for removal of the notification and permissions
> requirements. These requirements have resulted in zero use of this band for
> over two decades.
>
> The primary service back in the late 1990s when these rules came out was
> maritime (AMTS). Those licenses were never fully deployed and have now been
> leased out by railroads. This means, to us, that the permissions
> requirements now make no sense at all for secondary licensees.
>
> ORI is tired of this and is working to make this situation better. This is
> a great band with huge, innovative, digital promise. We deserve to have a
> seat at this table and that means the chair has to actually exist and the
> door to the room the table is located within has to actually be something
> we can open.
>
> -Michelle Thompson
>
>
>

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Adrian

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