Toby MM0TOB Jose gave all Amateurs a gift in my view. My copy was free es latest beta version was free. My payment was improvement suggestions es reports of bugs to Jose. Man what a deal! Jose is not the enemy es never was, but better described as a hero in my book. Giving the hobby a bit of needed hope, shot-in-the-arm for our struggling brotherly existence. Personally, I am envious of José's hard earned telecommunications engineering knowledge, programming skills the end results of his effort. Bravo Jose, well done.
[their isn't much room on the bands anyway.] sadly true. My employees, the FCC, are not going to grant Amateurs additional spectrum without some serious prodding by Amateurs es ARRL es powers that be. Amateurs' take a FCC back seat, we are not wealthy corrupt uncaring greedy corporate giants dolling out political favors in the form of greenbacks. My FCC eagerly sleeps with the Amateurs enemy. I believe the FCC see Amateurs as something similar as annoying gum on the bottom of their wingtip shoes on a hot summer day. The FCC could care less whether Amateurs continue to hang around or suddenly disappear tomorrow. The instant we disappear, I predict the FCC displaying glowing devilish dollar sign eyes feverishly scrambling , immediately begin to sell off our hard earned, well deserved, hard earned miniscule es now quite spectrum sliver. The FCC views Amateurs as a road block to multi millions (if not multi billions) to their coffer. Amateurs can rightfully claim they paid dues in full a long time back, the proverbial check was in the mail a century ago, many of Amateurs have more than paid their dues to get to your current Amateur status, could rightfully demand some change ($) back. If it's not to much to expect, perhaps some additional usable, practical spectrum. 1 and/or 2 things need to happen in our favor, (safe to say, longtime overdue) my voice the ARRL (a dues paying member es I donate to the ARRL spectrum fund) needs to locate their cajones es actively, aggressively acquire rightfully owed privileges, (many frequencies collecting dust as world communications move towards reliable satellite communications) those lonely neglected spectrum spots not being actively utilized es wasted. Aggressively hounding the International Telecommunication Union and/or International Amateur Radio Union if required. Frankly, the allocated channelized 60 meters is a slap in the face, amounts to nothing more then table scraps or leftovers. I believe Norway/Bangladesh are not rock bound es times have changed. The second option for favorable, revolution, nothing else will force changes to our genuine legitimate Amateur desires. I guess there is a third consideration, we sit on our proverbial asses &*%$ing away whining our lives away, hopeful for a vy unlikely GOD like miracle while holding out both hands to see which fills first. rgrds Craig kq6i Peace, long-life, es gud DX! © P.S. Free advice, Grow up... -----Original Message----- From: Toby Burnett [mailto:ruff...@hebrides.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 6:09 AM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Statement on Withdrawal of Support for ROS (K3UK Sked Pages)
