Might even adopt the Metric system within another century or so. My Dutch-born mother-in-law says that if she could get used to miles and pounds and inches at age 40+, Americans could easily get used to the Metric system if they started learning it in school.
Alan NV8A On 02/07/06 07:21 pm W4LDE-Ron wrote: > It's nature Kevin, please forgive us. We will catch up to the rest of > the world some day! > >I have been following this thread about band blans since its inception, > >with great intere > >st, and I wonder why it is that the US hams seem to think that the world > >starts and finishes in the USA. > >There is an awfull lot of world outside of the "States". The US hams > >seem to think that any country that has band plans different to theirs > >are wrong!! > >Our band plans are very similar to those of the UK. Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) 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/
