On Wednesday 30 November 2005 14:23, DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA wrote: > Ok...If you can't provide or won't provide a service the public wants, > the public may be asking for your frequencies. Remember its "our bands" > if we fulfill our charter. If we don't, "our bands" may become "someone > elses bands. > > Remeber that the "public" is any U.S. citizen or group of citizens > non-profit, > corporate or otherwise. > > If you don't think that the government can't have its way, you are too > young to remember how 11 meters and 220 MHz were taken away from hams to > satisfy industries desires. UPS wanted 220 MHz and they got it...and then > found out that they didn't want it. But they got it. > > I'd rather have the Red Cross, FEMA and NDMS working for me than against > me. > > I want to keep them happy. > > Walt/K5YFW >
The government is not the public. The public won't take our HF frequencies. There isn't that much the public can do with them. (That's assuming, of course, that the government doesn't do away with all licensing reqmts like they did with CB) The government might take them. If so, it will take them regardless of what we do. And I don't see much difference between amateur radio operator/vendors carving out wideband channels on HF for use by these government and non-government customers (thus restricting the use of the spectrum for the rest of the amateur community) and in the government taking them away from us and giving them to the government and non-government agencies. The Amateur Community loses the use of the spectrum in either case. And these channels *will* be carved out since the vendors will need to have them available if and when the customer demands. It's why the automatic robot operators are pushing so hard for additional spectrum. The carving has already begun and the available space has already been used. tim ab0wr ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/ELTolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to telnet://208.15.25.196/ Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ Looking for digital mode software? Check the quick commerical free link below http://www.obriensweb.com/digimodes.html Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
