[BC] (no subject)

[Lotus Engineering]

    This is one that we all should be looking at. It's sure to impact the Broadcast Auxiliary services at 455-455.99 and could be murder on the ham secondary use of the 420-450 band. While I sympathize with the intent, I wonder if this is the right approach.   With the advent of HDTV and the release of large chunks of spectrum in the upper UHF range, it is possible that there are more useful frequency blocks, especially since that range of Freqs. would require smaller antennas for more efficiency on implanted devices.  
Warning, it's 26 pages of typical FCC verbosity along with some heavy heart string pulling.  Interesting that the only commenter's were medical.  I guess the rest of us users must have missed the original announcement or was it just me.  Our turn is now..

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-09-20A1.pdf

Bill

Bill Croghan CPBE WBØKSW
Chief Engineer, 
KOMP/KXPT/KENO/KBAD/KWWN/KWID
Lotus Broadcasting, Las Vegas, NV