avoiding the ham bands won't protect the other users of HF.
NTIA and its USG "clients" will, hopefully, be one of our strongest
allies ... we should not take a "protect us and the heck with everyone
else" approach ... to do so would dillute our potential support.

I saw a report yesterday to the effect that some AM stations
were being wiped out by BPL noise. The number of people
needing their daily fix of Dr Laura and Rush PooBah easily
outnumber the ARRL membership, so this is good news for us.

Derek aa5bt