[CW] 500 KHz- MAKE IT AN AMATEUR BAND, CW ONLY, SOON!! STOP WASTING TIME AND SPECTRUM !

[Sherrill Watkins]

Dear Mr. Urnaito: Thank you for your email post on the CW reflector. While I
can most certainly sympathize with your keen feelings and opinions regarding
500 KHZ, considering its history and usage, I STRONGLY DISAGREE with your
conclusions as they are based on emotion, not logic. Also, I cannot follow
your reasoning; how does one make a "memorial" of any radio frequency?? All
radio frequencies belong to the people for their best use and the commercial
world no longer deems it to its interest to use the medium wave frequencies.
As we know, they used a BAND of the medium wave, not just 500 KHZ. Therefore,
it is most imperative that this medium wave band be returned to the people
for their use and by far the best way to do this is to create a world wide
amateur radio allocation at that medium wave band. I also believe that it
should be CW ONLY. Radio frequencies are not "privileged" frequencies for the
sole and exclusive right of any particular or select group. The commercial
services used 500 KHZ for only about 85 years. It was amateurs that used
medium wave before it was allocated to the marine commercial use several
years, approx. 1915, after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. By making it
an amateur medium wave band, the former shipboard and shore operators could
then use the frequency again as amateur radio operators! This would be great
news! Come on! Instead of feeling depressed about a by-gone era of which they
are no longer a part, lets start using it as amateur radio operators with CW
and have fun! Life is too short to worry. (For those few commerical operators
in China, let them move to the low end of HF or VHF.) -73- Sherrill W. k4own.