Ya could have fooled me with all the dialog over the last two months, but I know what you mean; I didn't have a "smiley" to add to the end of the sentence. Actually, it wasn't a total secret since the plan to do it was announced in August 2006 in a documented presentation to an IARU Region 3 Meeting.
Don't let the 75 meter knuckle draggers get the best of you. Ignore them, record them and/or report them if they are causing malicious interference. And, we will all wait for the "later still...". Pete, wa2cwa On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:33:10 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Don't be silly, Pete. There will be no "shakeup" simply because a > small > group wrote a bandplan in secret. The trouble comes later, as that > plan begins to > cause stress among amateurs over who is "following the bandplan" or > not. > There have already been on-air threats of violence made against > AMers in relation > to the new bandplan. > > It will also be a point of stress for hi-fi SSB stations, users of > vintage > gear of all kinds, and various digital mode users. > > Later still, the IARU bandplan will be held up as an example for > other > band-planners, such as the ARRL. And later still, there will be a > move to make it > part of the FCC rules. > > As my grandfather used to say, "Mark my words..." > > Steve WD8DAS ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.