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> start talking to the FCC about modernizing regulations for the 21st century

I would have thought that HAM operators need to fight to keep the regulations that they have, and that trying to make big changes would lead to worse outcomes?

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Any of the regulations predate most digital communications so there are a bunch of obsolete rules specifying the maximum symbol rate for digital transmissions rather then restricting the bandwidth which is what one actual cares about for sharing the available frequency space. This restriction artificially precludes use of many modern transmission schemes and hamstrings experimentation.

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