Nate Duehr wrote:
> No it doesn't.
Sure it does. I can get small, cheap data radios (cheap as in Lynx, and
that's pushing it!) for 433.92 MHz, or 900 something MHz, and that's it.
I CANNOT get ANYTHING even remotely suitable for 50 or 53 MHz. In fact,
at those frequencies, the allowable baud rate is very low, thus they are
completely unsuitable.

> There's plenty of experimental spectrum in the bandplans for all the
> Amateur bands.  You obviously haven't studied them at all.
Yes I have. I've read through all the relevant regulations very
carefully several times. I even went out and got a ham license just for
this project.

 > There are
 > also limitations in place by the FCC for power output for telecommand
> (1W).  See 97.215.  There are also FCC limitations on what types of
> emissions can be done in which portions of the bands.  See 97.305.
I believe the system I have now is about 50 mW so that shouldn't be a
problem ;) Also who said I was doing telecommand? It's actually for
telemetry. And for VHF and UHF there are very very few limits on
emission types (I believe there may be a couple areas set aside for
Morse code only, but that's about it).

> Just go do something dumb like interfere with a coordinated repeater
> system and see how far the "bandplan isn't law" argument gets you when
> the FCC comes knocking.
That has NOTHING to do with the band plan.

> There are plenty of documented cases of interference where the FCC
> Enforcement Bureau has sided with the user who's following the bandplan
> and fined or revoked the license of the Amateur who wasn't, depending on
> the perceived severity of the violation.  (Intentional interference is,
> of course, considered worse than unintentional.  But claiming no
> knowledge of whatever other users of the band area you are using is not
> a defense.)
This is a matter of not intentionally causing interference to others.
The band plan is just there to help coordinate things. That's IT. The
people that created it didn't think of everything, so there *will* be
times when it's not only useless but outright harmful. Usually it works
but sometimes it won't.

> Just use the bandplans.  Someday you may volunteer for a frequency
> coordination council and find out that people who have no respect for
> the bandplans, typically also garner no respect from their fellow hams
> who follow them.
> It's poor engineering practice, even.
I'm not going to argue with a silly insult like that unless you back it
up. My transmitter is legal, does not interfere with anyone else, and
works quite well.

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