How about we get rid of the ARRL and FCC altogether and just replace those bureaucratic dinosaurs with smart radio overlords? Buy a smart transceiver, no license required Scan your face into the radio's camera-it remembers you and your license level Use the finger-scanning touchscreen to take the license exams online and unlock new band privileges. If the radio detects that you're cheating on exams it detonates, blowing the roof off your house and turning you into charcoal If you've become a fat ham...the radio won't turn back on until you get off your butt and loose some weight Bands within your license are a free-for-all from DC to daylight, no mode or power limits (up to 2KW). Find an open spot and go. If you use dirty language, your radio shuts off for a day. 3 times in a month and it bricks. Get off the air you filthy animal. All radios and amps at least -40dB attenuated for sharp transmit bandwidth cutoff of 3KHz or 6KHz (AM) Radios will not allow you to transmit closer than 3KHz of a busy frequency. If the Feds need to allocate a section of a band for emergencies, your radio picks up that data from WWV and disables TX there Now...GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
ERR, I'm not a big fan of the ARRL, but,................... you are blaming them for something they did not do and have no control; over. Emission designators and usage of such, is controlled by the FCC.
That is like saying the license class structure is controlled by the FCC. Technically yes, it is... but the commission will do nothing on their own. The league proposes regulatory changes, be that with the license class structure, or specific Part 97 language. And yet you don't see them try and address this.
Perhaps you missed the League's regulation by bandwidth proposal a few years ago..... Bottom line: The FCC is not the arrl's puppet as you seem to think