[CW] I don't get it?

[D. Chester]

> What is "experimental" about the 500kHz neighborhood?  It's not like this 
> is some newly discovered spectrum, never used before.  Yet the FCC issues 
> "experimental" licenses to operate there, and now I see the Canadians are 
> doing the same.  What are hams going to learn that isn't already well 
> known from the nearly-100-years or so of previous use?
>
> 73, de Hans, K0HB

The previous users for the most part didn't have the kind of antenna and 
financial limitations most amateurs have, and amateur communication is 
different in many ways from commercial.  The "experimental" aspect is to 
discover what amateurs can actually do in that frequency range under the 
circumstances with what we have available.

Don k4kyv