Ed G writes: > > Using your same logic below, it could well be determined that hams > who partake regularly in 75M evening nets, or even regular QSO, etc, > should take their conversations to FCC Part D Citizen's band, or other > service , because those communications on a regular basis could be easily > furnished through those alternative services too. > > I know, its stupid, but it also carries the same logic as the below > example . > > K7AAT
Ragchews or roundtable nets with other hams could not be reasonably accomplished via another radio service, nor could the authorized purpose of improving international understanding via person-to-person contacts on the radio. (Any ham who is using 80m to work other hams within the reliable range of CB class D probably ought to consider QSY to 144 MHz or above, but that is wandering pretty far off the topic of this thread.) Daily vessel position reports, on the other hand, ARE done via the Maritime Mobile Radio Service, so obviously they CAN BE. For exchanges of email messages between yachts at sea and non-hams ashore via MM frequencies, see http://www.sailmail.com for a non-profit connection. I believe that for-profit public coast stations offer such services as well. 73 DE KW6H (ex-AE6VW), Chris
