[AMRadio] Fw: ARLB021 FCC Application Fee Proposal Proceeding is Open for Comments

[Rob Atkinson]

LOL good luck with your paranoia but I hate to break it to you:  Hams
are already second class citizens on 70 cm., since in the U.S., ham
radio is a secondary user to U.S. Military radar, which has primary
control.  So firstly, you're worried about something you never really
had completely, and secondly, I doubt if commercial TV or whatever,
will boot the Air Force off 70 cm.   You can sleep easy unless you
dredge up another hand wringer.

I'd rather have a U.S. amateur service with 10,000 licensees who are
competent, knowledgeable and passionate about radio than be party to a
sham of hundreds of thousands of dead or fake paper hams which faintly
resembles voter fraud.

73

Rob
K5UJ

On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 10:44 AM George DeVault <gdevault06 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Free broadcast TV used to be channels 2 through 83 (minus channel 37, which is reserved for radioastronomy).  Around 1970 channels 70-83 were taken away primarily for cellular phone service.  A few years ago channels 52-69 were taken away for digital services.  Then most recently channels 38-51 were taken away for similar uses. Free Broadcast TV now is crammed into channels 2 through 36.  (Channels 2-6 are still TV, but not very suitable for the mandated digital TV standard.)
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> Just below channel 14 lies 30 mHz of "beachfront" spectrum.  That's our 420-450 mHz ham band.  That's enough for 5 TV channels or innumerable digital voice or data channels.  There isn't much UHF spectrum left for the rapidly expanding digital industry. Guess  where will they look next?
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> (If it's any consolation there is little demand these days for HF spectrum.)
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> George
> W3KPT
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