On 10/25/2011 4:47 AM, Andre wrote:
Op 25-10-2011 1:36, Gregg Wonderly schreef:
The Amateur Radio service is the service.
All radio users are services.
Even CB and FRS are services, heck it is in the acrynom of FRS Family Radio
*Service*
The word service is not the primary issue Andre. It's the text of the FCC part
97 regulations which describe what the amateur radio service licensee is charged
with. The text says that the services of the amateur are important to the
communities around them, and to the art and science of radio based
communication's evolution. It says that there are things we can do that will be
real and valuable and that's why the allocation of the spectrum to our use is
viable.
I find it really amazing how hard it is to convince people that in this free
world, we all need to work together and sometimes that means you need to do
something that helps someone else. Why that is so hard for some people I am
just not sure. I guess if you want to have more taxes to pay, you could wait
for someone from the government to be charged to do everything. Then, I guess,
we wouldn't need to have Amateur Radio frequencies for our use. One could
imagine that they'd go ahead and usurp all of our spectrum back to make sure we
didn't interfere with their ability to do their job, while we are all setting
around talking about how great it is that we don't have to help...
Gregg Wonderly
W5GGW
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