[Boatanchors] [Milsurplus] Glenn's petition 4M

[Jim Wilhite]

Recently there has been an ongoing discussion about the petition and 
what to do on the ARRL group site.  I haven't seen anything in the past 
couple of days.

Jim/W5JO


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glen Zook" <gzook at yahoo.com>



>I haven't heard anything from the ARRL.  There were rumors that they 
>might ask for a band in the 72 MHz to 76 MHz segment.  However, that 
>would not be compatible with the rest of the world which is now 
>utilizing the 70.0 MHz to 70.5 MHz segment.
>
> Also, I have a "hunch" that since the ARRL did not originate the 
> proposal that they would be reluctant to "back it".  I may be wrong 
> about this, but, my experience with that organization leads me to 
> think that would be the case.
>
> The actual text of my submission is available in the first message of 
> the thread at
>
> http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?t=234707
>
> I am the "Head Moderator" of QRZ.com and that is why I posted the 
> information on that site.
>
> Glen, K9STH
>
> Website:  http://k9sth.com
>
>
> --- On Fri, 2/5/10, W2HX <w2hx at w2hx.com> wrote:
>
> Has the ARRL taken up the cause? Should we be pressing ARRL to do so?
>