What can I tell you Zack, times change. Some folks like to get out of the
house and do things while being able to stay in touch with friends, family,
coworkers, etc.
73
Jim, W4KXY
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart
you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
Richard P. Feynman
-----Original Message-----
From: vhfcontesting-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Zack Widup
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 1:04 PM
To: VHF Contesting Reflector
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] where we need the security
The funny thing is no one "needs" all this broadband usage. Of course,
people who have a vested interest in making money from it will say we "need"
it. But I got along without it just fine for at least 45 years of my life.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Ray J <Ray@w9ray.org> wrote:
>
> Laughable.. the ARRL is nothing more than a big amateur radio club, you
> think they can do anything against the likes of billionaire companies
> like Sprint, AT&T, or others, if they want some of our frequency
> allocations that we hardly use.
>
> the arrl has the FCC's ear in a very small capacity.. the president
> already said that every home need broadband access and seems everyone
> needs a super fancy cellphone that needs major airwave bandwidth..
>
> the only thing the government will really care about is keeping the
> bands that we currently use for real emergency communications. 80
> meters, 40 meters, 20 meters and 2 meters.
>
> 433,890-940mhz, 2.4ghz, 3.3-3.6GHz 5.7ghz, 10.5ghz, 24.07ghz
> and more are all ism or part 15 device bands.. they are there for
> consumer/medical electronics to use. they are not going anywhere.. it
> just so happens they let hams use some of the frequency's there too.
>
>
>
> >
> >
> Why doesnt the ARRL take up this fight in a serious manner?
> >
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