In article , Leo
writes:

Ah well, Leo, they still think that the United states is the centre of the
universe (or even the center of the universe, HI!). We used to think the
same thing about the British Empire, and we were wrong too!

Good point - in the grand scheme of things, it's the ITU who is likely
to blame for the continuation of amateur radio on a global scale - the
ARRL is but one fish in the big sea (well, a whale maybe, but it's a
big sea!)

Whales are all wet.

"Save the whales, collect the entire set!" :-)

BTW - it looks like you might be back in the British Empire sooner
than you think - I saw somebody trying to show you the door a while
ago in another post hi!) No problem, as your usher noted, there's
some great SSB DX on 7.050 thru 7.100 - might be worth it!

The last time there was any significant increase in HF ham bands
was 1979, 25 years ago.

As far back as 8 years ago, the NTIA's survey of future spectrum
requirements for amateur service indicated that over 1 MHz of
ham band space would be needed...as indicated by a footnote
saying that an ARRL person said that. ARRL has lobbied only for
the "60 meter" band in HF and got all of five CHANNELS. U.S.
league membership dollars at work... :-)

Yurp has a LF band. USA doesn't. Over here there's only the
160 to 190 KHz FREE band (no license required) on LF, sure as
heck no real power required either).

I love all the "effort" expended by the ARRL to get more HF band-
space within borders.

LHA / WMD