"Leo" wrote in message
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On 11 Feb 2004 02:00:07 GMT, (N2EY) wrote:
In article , Leo
writes:
Foreign stations still boom over here
today on part of our 40 meter band - because the ITU agreements say
they can.
That's because of a compromise worked out in 1938.
Which apparently could not be vetoed by just one country in a global
union 
That simply illustrates that the rest of the world cared less about amateurs
privileges than the US did. It indicates that the various governments
wanted these frequencies for themselves as many of the shortwave
broadcasters are government entities in their respective countries. That is
the other side of the coin. If the US had not been in there from the
earliest days supporting amateur frequencies, today's picture could easily
be very different.
Dee D. Flint, N8UZE