Personally, I dont trust a very small number of US or foreign hams to stick
with "good" "normal" or "decent" procedures. I lived and traveled and worked
overseas for over 20 years so know from what I speak. Its not so much Europe,
but often S America or parts of Asia that just do what they want, when they
want, and how they want, and to heck with everyone elses use of the bands.
Without regulartions, you have nothing to stand on to use to stop them.
I use CW a lot (90 percent or more) and certainly dont appreaciat some operator
coming up 1 KC from me with SSB talking to his or her cronies just down the
street, thus blocking out the majority of a DX band. Legal yes! Smart no! and
there is no way to stopthem from doing so. Over here, we call it the "Not in
my backyard syndrome" "There ought to be a rule that Ican do what I want - and
I dont care about others." We also have the majority of the worlds hams. Turn
us loose on the bands to do what WE want, and you wont like it. One or two ops
can ruin the whole band for the majority.
Danny Douglas N7DC
ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA
SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB all
DX 2-6 years each
.
QSL LOTW-buro- direct
As courtesty I upload to eQSL but if you
use that - also pls upload to LOTW
or hard card.
moderator [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message -----
From: John Bradley
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: USA: No Advanced Digital HF Data Comms
The question was what would we send with Highspeed that we don't now?
Probably nothing, but it would be nice to do so.
I have been watching this debate for some time, and readily admit that I
don't understand this headlong rush into more regulations, on top of what to me
would be an onerous situation already. Other countries have gone the opposite
way, with fewer regulations for ham radio to the point where the regulations
consist one or 2 licence classes ( and their requirements),what bands you may
transmit in and the maximum power and bandwith you can use. All this has been
done with the blessing of the IRU. A couple of years into this, and so far it
works.
As a non-US citizen, maybe someone could explain to me WHY all these rules
and regulations need to be established in the US ? Does the government and/or
the ham community not trust it's citizens to work cooperatively and to follow
historical operating practices and segments? Why isn't the ARRL marching along
the road to less and less, rather than more and more? Are lawyers and lobbyists
a growth industry?
The more I read the less I understand................
John
VE5MU
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