440 is valuable band because of the propogation. I agree it's time to do
something new with 6, but I don't think there's much of a move to steal that
one back!
On the other hand, who knows, if we continue to not use our alloted space
there are indeed a lot better uses for it, I don't think
From my time in Ham Radio:
- Going from Class A to a structured licensing was the end of Ham
Radio.
- Giving Novices 10m voice was the end of Ham Radio.
- Giving Novices 220 was the end of Ham Radio.
- Dropping CW from structured classes to 5WPM was the end of Ham
Radio.
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Here Here! Even back in the day when I ran RTTY on a HW-101 (really) people
on digital modes were more polite, less antagonistic, and in my humble
opinion, had better operating practices. CW came second, and phone a LONG
third.
Want to reinforce this? Listen to the loonies on 75 Phone, 14.275,