[Milsurplus] [Boatanchors] Glenn's petition 4M

[W2HX]

Has the ARRL taken up the cause? Should we be pressing ARRL to do so?

73 Eugene W2HX


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From: boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Sandy
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 9:31 PM
To: Glen Zook; Boat Anchors List; MilSurplus QSLNet; mac
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] [Milsurplus] Glenn's petition 4M

This would be an excellent move before some government agency wants to lay 
claim to it especially!  Most of the "spectrum raiding" seems to be centered

on the UHF bands and higher however.

"Low band FM", the old 30-50 Mhz "commercial 2-way region, has been very 
neglected with all the "whiz-bang" trunking systems on VHF and UHF FM 
stuff/satellite stuff in recent years.  Louisiana used to have a VERY 
excellent lo-band VHF "Party line" on 39.5 Mhz that would have really shined

right after Katrina, but the Motorola salesmen keep pushing the newer 
systems (which have way too much "infrastructure") and these failed 
miserably during the Katrina aftermath.  Most of the "newbie" commo types 
don't seem to understand a "keep-it-simple-stupid" low-band "party line" 
channels are waaaaay better when the power to all the newer type repeaters 
fails, especially the first 4-5 days after the disaster.  Ditto for "ham 
radio" HF communication and "message format" communications during the same 
time period.  Maybe someone "radio smart" will take up the flag and rally to

putting the old low band FM systems to work or the amateurs to work after a 
big disaster.  Too many political appointees that don't know "Bravo Sierra" 
about REAL emergency communications in the immediate "primitive conditions"!

73,

Sandy W5TVW
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glen Zook" <gzook at yahoo.com>
To: "Boat Anchors List" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; "MilSurplus QSLNet" 
<milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>; "mac" <w7qho at aol.com>
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] [Milsurplus] Glenn's petition 4M


> To establish a 4 meter band (70.0 MHz to 70.5 MHz) like they now have in 
> many parts of Europe and Africa.
>
> Glen, K9STH
>
> Website:  http://k9sth.com
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> --- On Fri, 2/5/10, mac <w7qho at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Petition to do what exactly???
>
>
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