I know some of the comments and arguments here are boring at times. However, they do serve a purpose in refining positions and educating folks about the rules.
Let's face it, with the number of hams the US has we are an 800 pound gorilla in amateur radio. Maybe not the only one, but certainly right in with a very few. If wide data modes used with auto stations and beacons everywhere proliferate in the US you folks in Europe will be greatly affected in about three years. I don't know how long you've been a ham, but you may not have been around for the last good ones in the 60's and 80's. The interference issues we are talking about here in the US right now will bother you as much or even more come what, about 2011, when the bands are open all day long to pretty much everywhere. You should be interested in what the outcome of all this will be. Jim WA0LYK --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "dl8le" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Per definition the > > DIGITALRADIO GROUP > > is > > > "A meeting place for discussion of amateur radio digital modes, > applications, software, hardware, equipment, and on the air > activity." > > The ongoing discussion about legal or formal topics since a couple > of weeks with constant repeating of all the old arguments without > any new ideas or aspects is more than boring and for sure not in > line with the original definition. It's just repeating something and > no interest in carefully considering the other party's arguments. > And, worst of all, only one part of the different subjects of this > group, the air activity if this term can be applied at all, is > discussed over and over again with absolutely no progress. Please > count the posts on FCC regulations, fundamental (and unfortunately > non-technical) contributions to emergency communication in > particular the spending of 250 KUSD for radio equipment etc (I don't > want to waste my time to list all what I have read in the past weeks > since I joined this group), and then compare that number to the > posts on real topics of this group. The ratio between the two > figures is in my opinion completely inadequate. > > I like open discussions but there should be an end sometime, at > least that the different parties come to the conclusion that there > will be no agreement. That is at least an agreement. > > If the present discussions will continue I will for sure leave this > group. The group will survive it, of course, but I wonder if not > many others not commenting in public will look for a better > alternative to the meeting place the Digitalradio Group is offering > at the moment. > > 73 > > Juergen, DL8LE >
