https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/search-filings/results?q=(pr...)
Edit: looks like hn escapes the parentheses in the docket query. Here’s a short link — http://bit.ly/45nSowI
I hope they don’t plan to use the ham bands. They are jammed with traffic while the much bigger commercial shortwave bands next door are empty!
If they do allocate spectrum for fixed commercial use, I hope they allocate equally spaced bands (like hams use) so that you can send digital signals and not have to filter out the harmonics.
I even travel with my radio. It seems to be this way across the United States. If you’d be open to sharing, I’d love to know where it’s so saturated.
That said, I don’t want commercial interests to take the amateur bands either, but I do believe they need to modernized. I think some of the space should be unallocated, and left that way, so people can experiment with minimal restriction.
Digital modes are active, as is 6m (50MHz) in the mornings.