[Wswss] Use it or lose it debate.

[Jim Walls]

frank bechdoldt wrote:
> The vast majority of the upper band contacts are made in an effort to inflate scores in ARRL contests by grid circling rovers.  The House sub committee should subpoena the VHF contest logs from the ARRl and look at the behavior of the grid circlers and captive rovers to determine if ham radio is using these frequencies in a way that benefits all the citizens of the united states that own the spectrum.
>   

You are forgetting the rather large amount of day in - day out use of 
quite a lot of the amateur microwave spectrum.  I'm speaking of linking 
of voice, data, and ATV systems.  Much of this is in daily (or in many 
cases continuace) use.  There is far more of this than most amateurs 
realize because it's "behind the scenes".  This use benefits thousands 
of amateurs - most of whom have no clue that they are talking over a 
microwave link.

There are also more amateur experimentation that takes place over many 
of the higher amateur bands than most people are aware of..

> Its time to use it for a real purpose or give most of it back to people who will use it to benefit society in general.  And yes evil corporations benefit society by keeping the economy going, like them or not.  Ham radio operators have a long history of integrity, we should not allow the misrepresentation of the use of these uper frequencies to protect the scores of 10-20 operators in a contest to stand in the way of using these bands for the good of all americans.  We don't need more than a few mhz per band above 2.3 ghz.  
>   

Hmmm, how do I get 6 fast scan ATV links to arrive at the same site at 
the same time in "a few mhz"?  BTW, each link uses a 17MHz wide channel.

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