[CW] ARRL BOD Jan. 19-20, 2001

[N7DC@cs.com]

Having lived and operated in Hong Kong, I can emphaticaly state that Japan is no "gentelemans paradise" either.  At a region 3 meeting, one of the big issues to us was the number of Japanese hams (They "bought" their licenses--- no test for the low power licesnes) who were like sharks everytime any VS6 got on the air and were trying to work DX.  A real feeding frenzy. 

Also when I Caracas, my biggest ham radio concern was locals getting right in the middle of the 40 meter CW band, with their constant chatting on SSB --ACROSS TOWN.  Sub-bands should be required by the ITU, because smaller countries are NOT going to do it.  



 N2EY@aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 8/13/03 7:00:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>k4kyv@hotmail.com writes:
>
>
>> >Most of the rest of the world's hams have *NO* subbands-by-mode on HF. 
>> They
>> >can run any mode anywhere, just like 160. "Gentleman's agreements" are 
>> >supposed
>> >to keep the modes apart.
>> >
>> >What do you think the HF ham bands would be like if the USA adopted that
>> >system?
>> 
>> Perhaps that says something about Americans, if "gentlemen's agreements" 
>> work in the rest of the world, but wouldn't work here.
>
>Who says they work in the rest of the world? ;-)
>
>Except for Japan, no country has anywhere near the number of hams that the 
>USA does. Heck - how many hams are there in all of Region 2 outside of the USA?
>
>So their QRM problems are much less than ours.
>
>
>> 
>> I wonder if it has anything to do with why we are thought of as "Ugly 
>> Americans" in so much of the world?
>> 
>
>We're 'ugly' until somebody needs help.....
>
>73 de Jim, N2EY
>
>
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