Well, yeah, property is pretty scarce out there .5 Mhz to tens or hundreds
of Ghz... hardly a spare megahertz anywhere... and yeah, a quick tune
across just a 30 Mhz sw is proof this is all in use and quite congested...

....but, I don't think so... and the citizens do own the spectrum--even if a
dicatator claims it in a foreign land--he is mistaken--and even if a whole
gov't claims it--they are mistaken... even if the public servants of the
USA think it is theirs--they are mistaken...

Really, this truth is so obivious I can't even imagine anyone arguing it...
although some may hold "religious views" on it, or be willing to wage "holy
wars" over it to serve their self-serving reasons, beliefs...

Warmest regards,
John
--
Sit down the six-pack!!! STEP AWAY!!! ...and go do something...

"Dave Hall" wrote in message
...
| On Wed, 11 May 2005 06:40:20 -0700, "John Smith"
| wrote:
|
| Dave:
|
| You said, "So, while the FCC might not directly
| "own" the airwaves, the U.S. government does."
|
| This is grossly mis-leading!!! The gov't owns NOTHING!!!!
|
| Well then they are certainly operating as if they do. They collect the
| proceeds from spectrum auctions. That makes the government a de-facto
| owner of this commodity.
|
|
| They are a group
| of indivduals who are elected, appointed, and hired to do the citizens
| business. They have a job to do--if they either cannot or will not do it
| without becomming self-serving employees--they simply need fired.
|
| Evidently the "citizens",collectively, do not see the problem with the
| FCC administering the airwaves in the manner than they currently do.
|
| These public servants, from the president on down, need to be worried
about
| what the citizens of this country need and want--and what the citizens of
| this country are telling them to do.
|
| By and large, the citizens are not screaming for mass chunks of radio
| spectrum to use.
|
|
| Just like if I hired an employee to help me in a private business--they
are
| directly answerable to their employers...
|
| What the gov't needs to do is set aside a bit of the radio spectrum for
use
| in conducing the citizens business--some for commercial use--some for
| hobby-expermental use... and the rest IS THE CITIZENS!!!!!
|
| To do what with? Besides, after you divide up the spectrum between
| legitimate commercial services (which are usually available to the
| citizens as in cell phone and wireless internet), public services
| (police, fire, EMS etc.) government entities (FBI, USGS, Forest
| service, military etc.) and hobby use (Ham and CB), there isn't much
| left.
|
| That's why the FCC operates as it does.
|
| Dave
| "Sandbagger"
| http://home.ptd.net/~n3cvj