"Leo" wrote in message
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On 10 Feb 2004 09:52:50 -0800, (N2EY) wrote:
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Without the ARRL, do you think we'd still have amateur radio? I don't.
Um, the rest of the planet does not have the ARRL, and amateur radio
is still going strong there.....
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73 de Jim, N2EY
73, Leo
Without the ARRL, US amateur radio would have remained permanently closed
after World War I. The other countries did not have enough amateurs to
justify keeping the frequencies and it is highly probably that they would
have all gone to commercial interests. Everyone wanted the shortwave
frequencies at that time and without the US, the foreign amateurs would not
have had enough leverage to have held on to the spectrum.
Dee D. Flint, N8UZE