The same analogy could be made for AM-FM-TV stations as well as Cellular, Nextel, and other such similar private owners of the public radio spectrum who get exclusive use granted.
Allan Crites WA9ZZU --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, "Dennis Zabawa" <kg4...@...> wrote: > > The point has been made that a closed repeater (actually any repeater) is > private property and others have no right to utilize it. I would agree to > that premise except for the fact that the repeater utilizes PUBLIC spectrum. > > The analogy would be: I have a large tent that I like to set up on my > property. If I take that same tent and permanently set it up in a public > park and, I keep others from entering my tent, I am using PUBLIC property for > my own, exclusive use. Would that set well with most of you? > > I have a closed repeater that has PUBLIC spectrum coordinated for it. That > has the effect of allocating that PUBLIC asset for my exclusive use. > > Why should a repeater be different than the tent? >
