Jan 2020 Draft Band Plan
ARRL is recognizing that with the extreme popularity of digital modes, they are making up a larger percentage of the lower frequency segment of the HF bandplans usage. They expect modes like FT8, that has had a rapid and extreme rise of usage, will produce even more evolutionary changes in HF usage. They have also seen that within the digital modes, a large increase in automatically controlled digital stations. They expect this trend to continue. With this retrospect, ARRL revived the HF Bandplanning Committee in August of 2019 to propose to the FCC a new segment allocation for usage of the Part 97 privileges.
