RadioBanter - View Single Post - Policy Issue: Canadian Amateurs to Lose 220-222 MHz

January 29th 06, 05:27 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

wrote:
From: Leo on Thurs, Jan 19 2006 5:30 pm

On 18 Jan 2006 18:04:24 -0800, wrote:
From: Leo on Jan 18, 2:53 pm
On 17 Jan 2006 06:49:27 -0800, "K4YZ" wrote:

So...Leo, what's the word from Canadian amateur radio on
the IC reallocation of "220?"

I have not been a user of the 220 MHz band (hmmm - maybe that's part
of the problem!), and cannot add much to what the original ARRL
bulletin stated.

I do recall receiving warning bulletins from the RAC back in 2004
stating that the 220 - 222 MHz Amateur allocation was under review by
Industry Canada, and we would lose it if we were not sufficiently
active on it. Commercial interests (specifically for multi-use radios
(MURS), trunked mobile and fixed wireless access applications, medical
telemetry and utility telemetry applications) had petitioned for this
spectrum to be released to them.

In short - we did not sufficiently utilize this band - and lost it,
despite significant lobbying by RAC to hang on to it.

On the other side of the coin, there were more non-amateur
radio users desiring VHF spectrum?

[I will ignore some readers who want to carp about "big
money interests" and other Bravo Sierra...]

ofcourse the big money interest are forbiden unles the Coders can use
em for meassge point like Jim on the CW network

Goes to show ya that our Amateur frequency allocations are not crafted
in stone - they can be taken away if we cannot demonstrate that we are
actively using them!

That's always the case. However, presenting a case is not always
done properly (or realistically). In the USA there was a petition
for the "60m band" for U.S. amteur use and the FCC granted only
a few CHANNELS in that region of HF. That was in spite of other
(non-amateur, non-broadcasting) users not using that part of the
HF spectrum often or heavily.