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Carl R. Stevenson wrote:
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8) Get involved in NTS, QMN, ARES, whatever, and use Morse Code there.
The main reason so much emergency/public service stuff is done on voice
is because they don't have the people - skilled operators - to use any
other mode.

Actually, I believe that the main reason that most emergency/public
service
stuff is done using voice (or digital modes) is that they're faster and
more
convenient to use in a "tactical" situation.

Probably a combination of factors when all is said and done. Point is,
without operators it's not going to happen.

I guess my point is that there doesn't appear to be a NEED for it to happen
(the served agencies
need different things.

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10) Forget about "the test". It will be gone soon and FCC won't bring
it back. Yes, a lot of us think they made a bad decision, but that's
nothing new, just look at BPL or their rulings on the sale of broadcast
radio stations.

Please don't compare this with BPL ...

Let me clarify:

The BPL comparison is made simply to point out that just because FCC
decides something doesn't make it "right" or the best thing. That's the
only point I was trying to make. Perhaps there's a better analogy for
when govt.
decides something that a sizable part of the population doesn't want.

I support the ARRL's actions against
BPL and encourage all hams to do so.

Same here!

OK ... clarification understood and accepted.

I contributed $1k to the Spectrum
Defense Fund - earmarked to fund their BPL efforts and I encourage
everyone
to make as generous a donation as they can afford.

You've done a lot more than that in the BPL situation, Carl.

You not only contributed money. You went to at least one operating BPL
site
(you may have done more than one, I'm not sure) and made observations
and
documented them. You used both your professional and amateur
expetise/experience
to present those documented observations in comments to FCC about the
reality of harmful interference from BPL. Very good stuff all around.

Thanks for the kind words ... I wasn't looking for "kudos" ... just trying
to encourage others to
help ARRL protect HF from BPL.

73,
Carl - wk3c