Rick.... If someone had proposed 50.5-51.00 ( NOT 50.300 - 54.000 ) for SS 99% of us could have lived with that. That part of the band is very lightly used except for some psk digi radios that are already there.
No one I know of is opposed to digital anything unless it is going to interfere with all other modes. The ARRL did at best a very poor job of informing band users and if your not a league member and don't get qst you were not informed at all .... and I agree SMIRK which should have done more seems to have let us down. What I see here is a lack of concern of the " EXPERIMENTER HAMS " in what what they seem important and indifferent to what it would do to all other users ..... get out of our way you LEGACY modes ...... we are what this band needs ...... Myself I have bought a new TS-2000 and have psk-31 on my older ft-100 that i can use over a wide range of bands so I'm not a SSB ELITE type ham and open to new modes on any band as long as that mode doesn't displace modes already there .... displacing other hams does nothing to build interest in this hobby. As for 220 MHz we lost 220-222 because the ARRL failed again to act and with a CLASS E CB proposed they fought that plan which was modded to allowing UPS to have the band anyway. I was one of only 5 users within 100 miles of Tampa on that band in 1974 and was running stack KLM 9 elm beams at 50 foot here in Tampabay and getting to Orlando and Brooksville every night . I was quite active on 220 before i got married and had to get rid of it back in 1980 HOWEVER it is a wonderful band and SS should get very good results as good as 2 meters with much less interference. A GOOD CHOICE ON THE PART OF THE FCC ! Unlike 6 or 2 Meters the 220 mhz band is almost unused nation wide but remember it is A GREAT BAND FOR TROPO and it DOES get E-Skip! just like 2 does. In the future any wide changes to 6 or 2 needs to be well thought out with input from the USERS. More proposals like 50.3-54 and 144.3 to 148 are doomed to failure since they impact all ready existing modes and set band plans and do nothing to increase usage of these bands. Bruce __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
