Bonnie did you read my entire post or did you just read the part you clipped out? Why don't auto stations try to conserve the space they have instead of trying to gobble up more. The point is winlink and ALE are two bandwidth hungry modes that should be looking to reduce the bandwidth they use instead of begging for more space. Make the modes share freqs instead of having one PMBO per freq like Steve and you apparently want. Only about 1% of the hams use the auto sub bands. I am included in that group, and you want 10%? Where is the logic in that? Does not pass the math test there. What happens in 5 years if you do get your 10% now? Will you be back here begging for 15%? Point is winlinkers are starting to QRM themselves as well as getting complaints filed on them for not listening and busting up a QSO already in progress.
What huge number of hams? Sorry but again 1% is not a huge number. Don't know where you learned math at but where I learned it that is a very small minority, not huge at all. Greg KC7GNM --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "expeditionradio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Greg KC7GNM wrote: > > The point is Bonnie I have seen digital radio going down the tubes > > thanks to winlink. ... > > I don't think they need more space to operate in. > > They already are a menace in the auto sub bands as it is. > > Greg, > > Digital radio has been progressing tremendously. > > I operate every day in the auto sub bands, in various parts of the > world. I have never found "winlink" to be anything like the menace you > say it is. In fact, it appears to be one of the very few entities that > provides such wonderful service to a huge number of hams every day. > > Automatic operation is essential to HF emcomm. It is certainly not > asking too much that 10% of each ham band be devoted to one of the > primary purposes for the existence of the Amateur Radio Service. > > Greg, where is your volunteer force of non-automatic operators > providing 24/7 emergency service on HF? > > Bonnie VR2/KQ6XA >
