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Discussion points on a long term Prognosis for AMATEUR RADIO
Stefan Wolfe wrote:
"Jimmie D" wrote in message . .. I doubt if the FCC cares about what we do inside our allocations. It is my opinion that if we want to keep our bandwidth we must remain a self policing group. The last thing we want is for the FCC to ever have to clean our house, I am afraid they would do it with a bulldozer. Right. Just like they cleaned up the 11 meter band. FCC is powerless against people who choose not to obey them. True, they can pick-off offenders one at a time. But as with CB, they would be powerless against an installed base of operators who wish to transmit. Any interest group that obtained todays amateur allocations would be subjected to massive interference by illegal operators rendering their resource financially useless. And how would you expect the USA FCC to "clean up" the CEPT countries? Or South America? Or Canada? Japan? China? etc.. Yanno, why does the 11 meter band need "cleaned up?" I kinda like it the way it exists. Reminds me of a "Mad Max Movie", I just end up wondering when Mel is gonna show up? Regards, JS |
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Discussion points on a long term Prognosis for AMATEUR RADIO
"John Smith I" wrote in message ... Stefan Wolfe wrote: "Jimmie D" wrote in message . .. I doubt if the FCC cares about what we do inside our allocations. It is my opinion that if we want to keep our bandwidth we must remain a self policing group. The last thing we want is for the FCC to ever have to clean our house, I am afraid they would do it with a bulldozer. Right. Just like they cleaned up the 11 meter band. FCC is powerless against people who choose not to obey them. True, they can pick-off offenders one at a time. But as with CB, they would be powerless against an installed base of operators who wish to transmit. Any interest group that obtained todays amateur allocations would be subjected to massive interference by illegal operators rendering their resource financially useless. And how would you expect the USA FCC to "clean up" the CEPT countries? Or South America? Or Canada? Japan? China? etc.. Yanno, why does the 11 meter band need "cleaned up?" I kinda like it the way it exists. Reminds me of a "Mad Max Movie", I just end up wondering when Mel is gonna show up? Regards, JS 11m does not need to be cleaned up. It is what it is. One might say say the the 11m operators are similar to ham radio pre-FCC. With their huge installed base they cannot be cleaned up. For the licensed amateur bands of the future, it is simply a matter of how much regulation this group will accept from FCC's Riley et al,. Actually 11m have formed their own self policing faction being far more mature than many of our own 20m classes, even if "illegal" by technicality. |
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Discussion points on a long term Prognosis for AMATEUR RADIO
"Stefan Wolfe" wrote in message ... "John Smith I" wrote in message ... Stefan Wolfe wrote: "Jimmie D" wrote in message . .. I doubt if the FCC cares about what we do inside our allocations. It is my opinion that if we want to keep our bandwidth we must remain a self policing group. The last thing we want is for the FCC to ever have to clean our house, I am afraid they would do it with a bulldozer. Right. Just like they cleaned up the 11 meter band. FCC is powerless against people who choose not to obey them. True, they can pick-off offenders one at a time. But as with CB, they would be powerless against an installed base of operators who wish to transmit. Any interest group that obtained todays amateur allocations would be subjected to massive interference by illegal operators rendering their resource financially useless. And how would you expect the USA FCC to "clean up" the CEPT countries? Or South America? Or Canada? Japan? China? etc.. Yanno, why does the 11 meter band need "cleaned up?" I kinda like it the way it exists. Reminds me of a "Mad Max Movie", I just end up wondering when Mel is gonna show up? Regards, JS 11m does not need to be cleaned up. It is what it is. One might say say the the 11m operators are similar to ham radio pre-FCC. With their huge installed base they cannot be cleaned up. For the licensed amateur bands of the future, it is simply a matter of how much regulation this group will accept from FCC's Riley et al,. Actually 11m have formed their own self policing faction being far more mature than many of our own 20m classes, even if "illegal" by technicality. This is very true, Ok with most cbers if you use a kw or more but abusive language, keying, lot of splatter will get your coax cut in the middle of the night. Where I live CB activity is pretty clean but I do know there are those who use EXCESSIVE POWER. |
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