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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