HRN 492: When, Jessica?

It’s fun to see Ham Radio bantered about in the halls of Congress. At the end of a 3-hour hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on Communications and Technology last June, Arizona Congresswoman (and friend of Ham Radio) Debbie Lesko ‘grilled’ FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel about the status of the proposal to replace the long-obsolete rules on HF data rates in Amateur Radio with something more modern… perhaps a 2.8 kHz bandwidth limit, and anything you can stuff into it. When’s that gonna happen, Jessica?

Rosenworcel acknowledged the need, but noted that the FCC’s inquiry, back in 2017, is now ‘stale’. This seems to imply a renewed proposal (NPRM?), another round of comments, and finally maybe some action? In other words, don’t hold your breath.

Anyway, we’ve got the clip from the end of the meeting. Again, fun to hear us mentioned.

This show is a solo anchor effort by East Coast Host Gary Pearce K4AAQ. David W0DHG and Jim NO1PC had family obligations. So after taking care of business, Gary brought in the HRN Discord Server’s Studio 73… an audio/video room for our viewers to come chat.

LINKS:

• Gary also noted that he’d never really seen ARRL CEO David Minster talk, so he included this interview on W1DED’s YouTube channel.

• Here’s the link to the YouTube video of that House Committee hearing. It should take you right to the end, with Lesko and Rosenworcel.

  • Credit to Ham Radio Crash Course for bringing this clip to our attention. See Josh’s analysis.

• HOA Antenna Bill update? On the RATPAC YouTube channel, with Fred Hopengarten K1VR & John Stratton N5AUS .

  • Use GovTrack to keep up with the bill.