>>My response to this argument has been to say that hams are acting as
>>"canaries in the coal mine", tipping off the public and corporations to
the
>>problems of this technology before it becomes pervasive enough to do real
>>harm. Just as the sport fishermen and duck hunters helped raise awareness
>>about water pollution a generation ago, we are doing the same for spectrum
>>pollution. Whether or not amateur radio and sport fishing are critical to
>>society is not the point, but irreversible and needless loss of spectrum
>>used by important services certainly is.
>
>YES! And it is precisely BECAUSE we are the caneries, and that we are
VOCAL
>canaries, that we are so critical to society.
>
>I'm not one to quote scripture, but there is a particularly relevant verse
that goes
>something like (depending on the translation) "if you have done it to the
least of
>them, you have done it to me." This is something that we all must live by
if we are to
>survive as a species.
Once upon a time, in response to a student's demand to be taught the entire
Jewish Torah while standing on one leg, a sage gently replied: "What is
hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor...all the rest is commentary."
73, Ward N0AX
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