[bulletins] Fw: ARLB024 FCC Releases New Rules for 60 Meters

[Randy Allen - KA0AZS]

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>ARLB024 FCC Releases New Rules for 60 Meters
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>ARRL Bulletin 24  ARLB024
>From ARRL Headquarters  
>Newington CT  November 23, 2011
>To all radio amateurs 
>
>SB QST ARL ARLB024
>ARLB024 FCC Releases New Rules for 60 Meters
>
>On November 18, the FCC released a Report and Order (R&O), defining
>new rules for the 60 meter (5 MHz) band. These rules are in response
>to a Petition for Rulemaking (PRM) filed by the ARRL more than five
>years ago and a June 2010 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). In
>the R&O, the FCC replaced one of the channels in the band, increased
>the maximum authorized power amateur stations may transmit in this
>band and authorized amateur stations to transmit three additional
>emission designators in the five channels in the 5330.6-5406.4 kHz
>band (60 meters).
>
>The Amateur Radio Service in the United States has a secondary
>allocation on 60 meters. Only those amateurs who hold General,
>Advanced or Amateur Extra class licenses may operate on this band.
>Amateur stations must not cause harmful interference to -- and must
>accept interference from -- stations authorized by any
>administration in the fixed service, as well as mobile (except
>aeronautical mobile) stations authorized by the administrations of
>other countries.
>
>PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE CHANGES HAVE NOT YET TAKEN EFFECT. These new
>rules will take effect 30 days after they are published in the
>Federal Register. The ARRL will announce on its website when the
>rules are published.  Additional information can currently be found
>on the web at,
>http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-releases-new-rules-for-60-meters.
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>/EX


Randy Allen, KA0AZS