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We consider singular integral operators on ℝ given by convolution with a principal value distribution defined by integrating against oscillating kernels of the form $e^{iR(x)}/x$ where R(x) = P(x)/Q(x) is a general rational function with real coefficients. We establish weak-type (1,1) bounds for such operators which are uniform in the coefficients, depending only on the degrees of P and Q. It is not always the case that these operators map the Hardy space H¹(ℝ) to L¹(ℝ) and we will characterise those rational phases R(x) = P(x)/Q(x) which do map H¹ to L¹ (and even H¹ to H¹).