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Are we the last generation of hams?
On Apr 23, 2:18 pm, Steve Bonine wrote:
My focus tends to be increasing the overall population of the users to increase the usage of our allocations, thus justifying them. I'm not persuaded of the validity of that approach for a couple of reasons. 1) There's no shortage of hams. 2) In many cases, simple "usage" has not been sufficient to retain an allocation. Notice for example, television broadcasters (a much more powerful 'lobby' than ham radio) has already been kicked off channels 70 through 83 and are in the process of being kicked off channels 52 through 69. In the near future television broadcasters will also lose the heavily occupied VHF channels. If the politically and financially powerful broadcasting industry could not retain those assignments, how can hams even pretend to be able to make a case based on "population of users" who are for the most part avocational users? 73, de Hans, K0HB |
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