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Michael Coslo · April 23rd 07, 06:45 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.moderated

wrote:
On Apr 23, 9:57 am, wrote:

Which means that 160, 10, 220 and all above 432 would no longer be
available for the use of SSB, DSB, AM, FM, RTTY, AMTOR, PACTOR, SSTV,
TV, PSK31, and CW. Plus considerable segments of the rest of the
amateur bands would lose those modes as well. Not by voluntarily
abandonment of old modes but by law.

Exactly. The point of the exercise is to precipitate a "crisis" or a
"challenge" similar to the "200-meters-and-down" event which is widely
claimed as the catalyst which launched the "golden age" of amateur
radio advancement.

I assume you are playing devil's advocate here Hans?

An artificial crisis could have some nasty unintended results, IMO. And
I don't buy that it was the crisis effect that stimulated innovation for
those Hams of days gone by anyway. What they did was discover certain
features of HF that were not already known. That isn't to downplay the
effort, that is just how things happen. If Hams weren't confined there,
someone else probably would have eventually.

If we eliminate everything but new(er) modes from 160 meters, are
major discoveries going to come out of it? Not likely. I'm also trying
to imagine someone getting fined by th eFCC for using an "old mode" -
say a 16 year old one - on 160 meters. Just too complex a schem for my
taste.

- 73 de Mike KB3EIA -