[CW] Re: CW digest, Vol 4 #187 - 4 msgs

[Thomas Beaudry]

>>> Well, they need to write an ending chapter to the excellent book 
>>> about the
>>> history of amateur radio "200 meters and down" so future generations 
>>> can see
>>> how the Board of Directors and Officials manipulated its membership 
>>> on the
>>> demise of CWand its sub-bands, Five Channels were gainied on 60 
>>> meters for
>>> usb to compensate the loss of 300Mhz of frequency.
>
>   PLEASE TELL ME WHERE I CAN READ A FACTUAL STATEMENT DOCUMENTING "THE 
> LOSS OF 300 MHZ OF FREQUENCY".

He's obviously talking about the microwaves but he's not being 
realistic either.  Since radio began, hams have been given all the 
spectrum that was not usable by other services.  When the technology 
and economics advanced enough that some of that spectrum was usable to 
others, our allocations were cut back to make space for those others.  
As much as it may hurt, I don't find that to be unreasonable.  To claim 
otherwise and to carry it out to it's logical conclusion, you would 
have to say that it's not right that we don't have all the spectrum 
from (as the book is titled) 200 meters and down, our first allocation.

So yes, we've probably lost 300 MHz of spectrum, in fact more if you go 
back to that original allocation.  But it is also true that the radio 
spectrum is a finite resource that we must share with others.  I wonder 
how many would give up their cell phones?  That was once allocated to 
amateurs.  How about your TV sets?  Air traffic control radar?  The 
list goes on...

I don't see the gaining of 60M as compensation for losses in the 
microwaves.  I don't see the two connected in any way.  And if you want 
to stop the loss of further microwaves, bitching about/to the FCC is 
going to do absolutely zilch.  They were given a congressional mandate 
to commercialize the microwaves as much as possible once Congress 
realized they could make tons of money off of them.  The FCC obviously 
cannot tell Congress to go to hell.  And that is the reason the ARRL 
keeps trying to get the Spectrum Preservation Act enacted, to partially 
nullify that congressional mandate.

73,

-- 
Thomas M. Beaudry
k8la / ys1ztm
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