Define needless? Whys is it needless? Were the messages being relayed across the country by amateur radio stations in 1920 needless? There was AT&T and several other smaller telegraph systems that did the same thing.
The idea today is to have a high level of confidence in our ability to send and receive messages via an RF link in case there is a need by the nation of in the world. By exercising our systems on a regular basis, we can learn to depend on the systems and identify their shortfalls so that in a "real world" situation, the systems will function properly and without failure. Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. 73, Walt/K5YFW -----Original Message----- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joe Ivey Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 4:40 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: 3580kHz-3600kHz Freq Coordination Info Rick, I agree with what you are saying. I guess that no one really realized what would happen when the FCC allowed this. But I still say that most of the traffic that goes through the system right now is needless. With all the communications out there, internet, cell phones and the like it should not be allowed on the ham bands. Joe W4JSI
