[GreenKeys] Electronic Comment Filing

[William Bytheway]

I tried the FCC site, and filed the following comments:

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On December 21, 1999, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
approved a request for a Special Temporary Authority (STA) to 
establish and operate a 1000-watt Radio Teletype (RTTY) Broadcast 
Station on 6994KHz and 13972KHz using the callsign WA9XHN.  This 
non-profit broadcast transmitter operated daily until the FCC 
license expired.  The experiment was considered a success with 
listeners around the world.

RM-10765 provides for a distributed Homeland Security emergency
broadcast capability.  It supports the FCC's strategic goal for 
Homeland Security to provide leadership in evaluating and 
strengthening the Nation's communications infrastructure, in 
ensuring rapid restoration of that infrastructure in the event 
of disruption, and in ensuring that essential public health 
and safety personnel have effective communications services 
available to them in emergency situations.

RM-10765 would provide the listener the capability to use free 
software available in the public domain to decode multiple channel
PSK31 transmissions at the same, each with a different content.
Other modes are also provided for, utilizing the same bandwidth 
as a standard SSB voice signal.  The technology is simple, the
listener only requires a computer, sound card and HF receiver.

RM-10765 would also encourge development of new technologies to
transmit data consistent within the channelized bandwidth 
requirements.  

RM-10765 allows for digital broadcast stations around the USA
using lower power capabilities to provide reliable, easily 
available, and interoperable communications broadcasts using 
easily available technologies.  It is an open system technology, 
nothing proprietary and will be inexpensive to implement.

RM-10765 allows for a more regional approach to HF broadcast
in the domestic broadcast theater.  In a disaster, it's low
power, narrow bandwidth transmission techniques can be used to 
transmit necessary data reliably to emergency support personnel, 
the public and government listeners.  The concept is not dependent 
on a large commercial and complex (fragile) broadcast infrastructure.

I support RM-10765 and encourge the FCC to approve this docket.

William Bytheway
11108 SE 184th Place
Renton, WA  98055
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