FCC to vote on elimination of the baud rate limit in the amateur radio bands

 

The FCC is expected to take action at its November meeting on a Report and Order that would eliminate the baud rate limitation and establish a bandwidth limitation in the amateur radio bands below 29.7 MHz. 

The order being circulated for tentative consideration by the commission would remove the baud rate limitation — the rate at which the carrier waveform amplitude, frequency and/or phase is varied to transmit information — for data emissions in the amateur radio bands, the FCC says. The current baud rate limits were adopted in 1980.

The order would implement a 2.8 kilohertz bandwidth limitation in place of the baud rate in amateur radio bands. The 2.8 kHz limitation is consistent with the commission’s treatment of other wireless radio services, the FCC says.

Read more here: https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/business-and-law/fcc-wants-to-bolster-amateur-radio

FCC fact sheet: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-397992A1.pdf