"Dick Carroll;" wrote in message ...
JJ wrote:



Brian Kelly wrote:


Every once in a blue moon when I've had absolutely nothing better to
do with my life I've gotten on 27Mhz and looked for intelligent life.
On the rare occasions when I've actually found some it lasts maybe
five minutes at most before the bozos blow it off the freq.

YMMV . . !
w3rv


So as to the subject "Do Hams get 11 Meters Back", I ask, "why in the
world would hams want 11 meters back?" Eleven meters is the perfect
example of what happens when rules are thrown out the window, total
chaos. The cber's have managed to make it the sewer pit of the radio
spectrum and the sad part is they can't even keep it in their own
territory, they have to spew their garbage to other frequencies as well.
The fact that hams in general follow the rules, and expect other
operators to do the same is what keeps many cber's from getting a
license. I say, "good riddance, we don't need those types in ham radio."

There's another angle to this "losing 11M" topic. The band was
essentially ignored by hams, we didn't lose anything in that sense.
Part of the reason was the high level of RF crud (shades of BPL . .!)
tossed out by high-powered unlicensed industrial and medical
equipment. The junk was all over the band particularly in urban areas.
A second and a big reason the band was grossly underutilized was that
there was little or no DX on 11M. Third, the neighboring 10M band at
1.7 Mhz wide had, and still has more than enough bandwidth to
accomodate anybody who wants to operate on the band without the
crowded condx on the rest of our HF bands.


It WILL be interesting to see how many of them leap on a code-free HF
license though, won't it?

Prolly great heaps of 'em will do it. What the hell, they'll be almost
free. But then the show will be pretty much over. There will be
noticable shifts in the volumes of Techs vs. new Generals and Extras.
And maybe, just maybe a few non-hams will jump in. So we'll see a
short, small blip in the growth numbers a la 1991-92 then it'll drop
back to bizness as usual.

I'm more interested in what the new-wave codeless wonders will
actually do with their new privs. Will they pop the bucks for the
expensive HF gear then put the work into the antennas? Some will of
course but only a fraction of 'em. The question in my mind is whether
that fraction will be large enough to have any noticeable impact at
all on the HF bands. I very seriously doubt it, my bet is that most of
'em won't bother, they'll stay on the machines and the only obvious
results of the whole regulatory lurch will be in the nut-and-shell
games in the FCC database.

w3rv