In article , Mike Coslo
writes:

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.

Doggone it Dee! Your factual post is going to ruin another anti-US rant!

One ritta mistake: It isn't factual.

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