[Elecraft] [Bulk] OT: Verizon's response to Net Neutrality: in Morse code!!

Alan n1al at sonic.net
Fri Feb 27 19:25:58 EST 2015


On 02/27/2015 10:00 AM, Phil Kane wrote:
> On 2/26/2015 11:12 PM, Cliff Frescura wrote:
>
>> My thinking changed when UPS successfully lobbied the FCC in 1989 to
>> reallocate part of 220MHz from Amateur to Commercial service.
...
> Urban legend.  "I wuz there."  It wasn't UPS...
>
> The amateur community didn't have "clean hands" because we failed to use
> that part of the spectrum to any great extent, probably because of a
> lack of reasonably-priced equipment at the time. ...

Hey, we had the Drake UV-3.

Alan N1AL
(Designer of the UV-3's 220 MHz band module :=)



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