I guess there's gatekeeping NIMBYs in the amateur radio bands as well!
The Winlink people have already channelized large swaths of the CW and data subbands, and this just takes more spectrum away from people who will likely be occupying the frequency when a Vara session fires up on top of them.
That kind of behavior is not only inconsiderate, it is still against the rules.
It isn’t just CW, PSK31, wspr and others are modes already affected by the current rules. Allowing 2.8 khz bandwidth will only make it worse.
Just last week I had my PSK31 QSO crushed by a Vara session.
I do share your disdain for stupid and/or incorrect nomenclature. Like "Wi-Fi." WTF, there's no use of "fidelity" that this is short for.
In a similar way, ThunderBolt™ links don't use thunder, or bolts.
"ThunderBolt" is an invalid comparison because it's not a rip-off of a known earlier and widely-used term, the way "Wi-Fi" is.
> How did “amateur” become “ham”? The real answer is unknown! Even before radio, telegraphers referred to a poor operator as a ham. Perhaps this was derived from a poor operator being “ham-fisted” on the telegraph key — an operator’s “fist” referred to his or her distinctive style over the wires. With all radio stations sharing the same radio spectrum in the early days, commercial and military operators would sometimes refer to amateurs as hams when there was interference. Regardless, amateurs adopted the term as a badge of honor and proudly refer to each other as “hams” today.
While you'd buy the latest 5th edition from the ARRL [1] to prepare for the exam, the older 3rd edition is freely available online [2].
[1] https://www.arrl.org/ham-radio-license-manual
[2] https://macaloney.blogspot.com/2019/06/how-to-prepare-for-ha...
I have long since traded my license for a better life of being a decadent man of international mystery, but I do remember as a very casual CW operator getting mauled by people semi-regularly for violations of people's waterfall displays with my drifty ass analogue transceiver and newbie hand.