Barry OGrady wrote:
On 29 Dec 2004 05:00:06 GMT, (Len Over 21) wrote:


In article ws.com, "Phil
Kane" writes:


On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:04:32 -0500, Mike Coslo wrote:


The FCC is now allowing unlicensed operation in several bands: 6 GHz, 17
GHz and 24 GHz bands, are you concerned about the impact it will have on
Hams?

How many people here even use the GHz bands?

Are there enough Hams to even justify further use?

They used to say the same thing about the bands above 2 meters.

We lost 220-222 MHz. That isn't important unless all the 2m and 3/4m
frequency pairs are used up.

The two-twenty loss (part of the old band there) was "lost" to hams
some time ago. The Condor Net has been living and doing fine in
what is left above it. BIG network, multiple states involved, all tone
signalling to link along the net, designed that way before micro-
processors became commonplace.

Don't worry, anyone. Morsemanship is still necessary to get on HF
as an amateur.


No its not. My amateur license lets me use all amateur bands with no knowledge
of morse.

Barry, I think you're new to the group. As far as I can figure,
Lenover21 kind of speaks out against Morse qualified Hams, or at least
those who support Morse code testing every chance he gets. He has some
pretty strong feelings in that way. That is how we get Morse related
comments here in this thread. In the US of A, there is no Morse code
testing for access to Ham frequencies above 30 MHz, so this thread
doesn't have much to do with Morse code testing.

But that's Len, and we all like him anyhow (at least I do)

- Mike KB3EIA -

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:32:00 -0500, Mike Coslo wrote:

Barry, I think you're new to the group.

BarryO has posted here for quite a while. He appears to be an
Australian ham and keeps making statements about his license
(excuse me - "licence") privileges and other off-the-wall things
designed merely to pull chains rather than to contribute to the
discussion at hand. On things like FCC amateur radio policy, he
rarely hits the mark.

I can't decide whether to put him back in my killfile or not.

--
73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane