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[Chipn1ir@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/14/04 2:59:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, N7DC@cs.com 
writes:
I disagree completely.  It is NOT here to stay, if it causes the type of 
inteference we belive it will.  That is, if  WE DO SOMETHING about it NOW, and 
also continually complain everytime it is installed in an area.    If they put it 
around me, they will get daily telephone and mail and email complaints till 
it is gone.  If it is put nearby, and doesnt directly affect me at home, they 
will get mail every time I drive by that town and hear it.  The FCC has 
absolutely no business approving this, knowing the its potential state of inteference 
to other services.  You better bet that if we, the amateur population, came 
up with a mode of operation that was guaranteed to cause inteference to other, 
that we would be shut down before we started.  
I appreciate that opinions are strong on this matter, and that is why it is 
good to know that cooler heads--BOTH technical and legal--prevail at the 
FCC.Some of these folks are hams, BTW. Active radio amateurs. You'd recognize their 
callsigns.

Now, a bit of history. Before the dominance of the 'continuous wave', radio 
was wireless (the first time) and wireless was spark. Spark was a modulated 
noise. It was extremely broad in bandwidth and incapable of being separated from 
other signals, save for slight differences in 'tone', and signal strength. 
Radio amateurs, due to their rapid growth in numbers, were, indeed, threatened to 
be shut down by the Navy (who controlled the ether at that time in the US).

The fact that the Federal Radio Commission--later the FCC--saw fit to keep 
the amateur service, is a strong precedent against your fear. It is 
hyperbolically stated.

Things do seem to work out, both historically and in real-time. It will all 
work out my friend.

73,
Chip N1IR


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