"Steve Robeson, K4CAP" wrote


Facts undermine his attack, however.


The facts are this: If amateur radio had to justify it's frequency
allocations based only on public service communications (Part 97, SubPart
E), then we'd be QRT on most of our frequencies by midnight tonight.

The amateur radio service, the citizens (band) radio service, the GMRS, the
FRS, the broadcast radio service, and etc., all exist and are allocated
frequencies so long as PICON says they do. PICON is a lot more than just
"public service", and further it is dynamic so any given services "favor"
under PICON is subject to spectrum market forces, and is influenced most
strongly by the "I" and "N" in PICON. As a hypothetical example, if Tom
Ridge decided he needs ("N") some HF spectrum to communicate with air
marshalls, 50KHz each of 75, 40, 30, and 20 meters could disappear from
97.301 in the blink of an eye.

Thus endeth the lesson.

73, de Hans, K0HB