If this is mostly for yachters and it is really necessary maybe they
should petition the ITU ( or what ever agency handles international freq
assignments) for their own designated freq. Maybe 14.360 is available.
Folks could still use their amateur equipment and a rule could be
implemented to allow use of the freq by hams world wide for martime net
use only.
Just a thought
Bill Haddon wrote:
> RE MMRS Petition:
>
> I have a different perspective.
>
> For the last 17 years my family has spent Thanksgiving with members and
> friends of two major sailing clubs in the SF Bay area (we are not sailers,
> however). A wide variety of people have attended these gatherings, which
> are usually 20-25 people. Without exception, members of the sailing
> community have high regard for ham radio because of the services provided by
> MMSN.
>
> It may be useful to look at the compilation of reported incidents at:
>
> http://www.mmsn.org/recent_events.htm
>
> MMRN is asking for about 5 or 6 KHz, a very small percentage of the 20m
> phone band. It doesn't seem unreasonable to me particularly after reading
> the list of incidents that the group has dealt with. These stories are
> similar to those I've heard from attendees at our Thanksgiving group.
>
> 73 Bill n6zfo
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