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Acting upon a subsequent request by the ARRL, the FCC issued an
Order, WT Docket No, 12 283, on March 25, granting a temporary
waiver to transmit communications on amateur service channels above
30 MHz using single time slot Time Division Multiple Access, or
TDMA, systems. The temporary waiver was granted pending the
resolution of a related rulemaking proceeding, RM 11625.  The
website link to the waiver can found in teleprinter, packet and
Internet versions of 2013 ARRL Bulletin ARLB007.  Currently, amateur
stations currently are authorized to transmit messages using
telephony and data emissions. The ARRL noted in its request that
Amateur Radio Service licensees have recently established numerous
narrowband repeater facilities using multiple time slot TDMA
repeaters and single slot TDMA handheld digital transceivers in the
70 centimeter, 420 to 450 MHz, band, but Part 97 as it currently
stands does not permit amateur stations to transmit single slot TDMA
emissions on Amateur Radio Service channels above 30 MHz.  The FCC
stated in its Order that the purpose of specifying emission
designators for the Amateur Radio Service is to relegate the
transmission of certain inharmonious emission types to different
segments of the frequency bands, while still allowing great
flexibility in the types of emissions that may be transmitted by
amateur stations. In granting the temporary waiver, the FCC agreed
with the ARRL, noting that the digital systems that radio amateurs
have recently implemented are compatible with existing amateur
repeater channelization plans.  The FCC also noted that allowing FXE
and F7E as phone emissions and emission type FXD as a data emission
is unlikely to result in inharmonious emission types being used in
the same segments of the frequency bands. We also conclude that
allowing amateur stations to transmit these emission types is
consistent with the basis and purpose of the amateur service,
specifically to continue to contribute to the advancement of the
radio art. We conclude that good cause has been shown for temporary
waiver of Section 97.3c5 to allow amateur stations to transmit
emission types FXE and F7E as a phone emission and Section 97.307f8
to allow amateur stations to transmit emission type FXD as a data
emission.  First licensed in 1929 as W3AMR in Pennsylvania, Hart
began his ARRL career in August 1938 as a second operator at the
W1AW Maxim Memorial Station, which was new at the time. He took over
as Acting Communications Manager in 1942 when then Acting
Communications Manager John Huntoon, W1LVQ, left the ARRL for active
duty in the US Coast Guard during World War II. Beginning with the
December 1942 issue, Hart contributed almost 1000 articles to QST,
with topics ranging from public service to simulated emergency tests
to traffic handling pointers.  He also penned the monthly columns
Operating News and Amateur Radio Public Service.  Hart was a member
of the ARRL A 1 Operator Club, the Quarter Century Wireless
Association and the Newington Amateur Radio League, which he helped
create in 1946 and for which he served as its first president. He
was inducted into the CQ Hall of Fame in 2010 for his contributions
to the NTS.

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