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

Fri Feb 5 23:16:12 EST 2010

Gents:

     A receptive audience, I hope, to this idea.  I've been collecting 
backpack and squad military radios for some time now and am convinced of the 
utility of lowband FM simplex, on which they all operate,  for local and 
county-wide (and perhaps greater) coverage due to the low attenuation of 
ground wave at these frequencies.  I've begun a program to conduct regular 
simplex nets in the Montgomery County, MD suburbs of WDC, hoping to instill 
in the local Hams some sense of this band's usefullness to us and citizens 
of the area during emcomms (such as the blizzard we are now experiencing.)

     I agree that some of the Hams' systems are becoming as complex and 
vulnerable as our professional bretheren's systems.  I am afraid that many 
of us would become lost without our clubs' repeaters, such as might happen 
during a prolonged power outage when backup batts would become depleted.

     I suggest that we begin to conduct exercises, or at least regular nets, 
on selected 6M FM frequencies in our respective hometown areas.  I'm 
convinced that 6M FM would be perfect for repeaterless coverage of large 
swaths of geography, and would likely be very useful for some of the newer 
keyboard modes that allow e-mails and radiograms to be composed and sent 
from PC to PC via Ham radio.

     Furthermore, having a band such as 72 MHz available to use would permit 
the construction of longhaul pipelines for record traffic hauling, much as 
219 MHz is supposed to be for.

     Any thoughts?  Thanks.


73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "W2HX" <w2hx at w2hx.com>
To: "Glen Zook" <gzook at yahoo.com>; "Boat Anchors List" 
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Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] [Boatanchors] Glenn's petition 4M


> Has the ARRL taken up the cause? Should we be pressing ARRL to do so?
>
> 73 Eugene W2HX
>
>
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> [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
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> 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
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>
>> 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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