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Old April 23rd 05, 03:06 AM
 
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Well history has revealed that radio amateurs were pushed further up

the
frequency scale simply because they (the authorities) thought it was

of no
use commercially. Look at Short Wave, it was the radio amateurs who
discovered that one could work the world on short waves. Radio

amateurs who
discovered (or was it invented) SSB.


I don't know who invented SSB but it was in use for a number of years
commercially before it first appeared in the amateur bands.

Now of course there are fewer things
for us radio amateurs to give the world (for free of course) so our
existance is tolerated. However it looks like that tolerance (at

least in
the UK) is about to be curtailed.
Brian


There's an old adage out there which applies here, "Use it or lose it".
There's no point to complaining about losing allocations if we don't
use them. Which is the case with 24Ghz and we did it to ourselves.

w3rv