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11/06/2012 | FCC Rejects Maryland Ham’s Plan for Amending Message Forwarding System Rules
On Monday, November 5, the FCC issued a letter dismissing a Petition for Rulemaking that asked the FCC to amend Section 97.219 of the FCC's Rules.
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06/08/2010 | FCC Dismisses California Ham’s Petition to Amend Section 97.1
In September 2009, Gordon Schlesinger, W6LBV, of San Diego, California, filed a Petition for Rule Making with the FCC, seeking to amend Section 97.1 of the Commission’s rules to account for changes in technology and amateur practice since the
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05/15/2010 | FCC Seeks Comments on Newly Proposed Rules for Amateur Radio Operators Using Spread Spectrum Communications
In March, the FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that proposed to amend Part 97 to facilitate the use of spread spectrum communications technologies by eliminating the requirement that amateur stations use automatic power control (APC) to
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03/18/2010 | FCC Proposes to Eliminate Spread Spectrum APC Requirement, Reduce Spread Spectrum Power Limit; Cleans Up Portions of Part 97
In response to a 2006 ARRL Petition regarding spread spectrum issues, the FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) on March 16 (WT Docket No 10-62), proposing to amend Part 97 to facilitate the use of spread spectrum
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