Gene,
Thank you for a well thought out and written testimony on how the ARRL is
dealing with these issues and for sure I am in full support of the ARRL.
Others are free to voice their opinions and that is valid as long as they do
not get into the attack mode.
73's and cu in the Jan contest.
Steve
K1IIG
>A few weeks ago Les N1LF raised aquestion about spectrum usage on this
> reflector: could we amateurs trade spectrum security and a Federal
> override
> of CC&Rs in return for giving our entire microwave frequency allocations
> to
> the broadband providers that the current newspaper articles say are in
> serious need of massive amounts of new microwave space. While this is an
> important question it is only marginally appropriate for a VHF contesting
> reflector and is much more appropriate for a general purpose weak signal
> reflector like Stanford. It deals with commercial spectrum issues, serious
> political details, business issues and is appropriate for THIS reflector
> only because all of our large VHF contests are scored like microwave
> contests and if there are no microwave bands it would make a huge
> difference
> in the scoring.
>
> The discussion has beaten this subject into the ground and completely
> dominated this reflector for more than a few weeks with the minor
> exception
> of discussion whether 222 or 1296 ought to be the next band for a
> 50/144/432
> station - a subject that has also been discussed in great detail several
> times in the past but is directly relevant to VHF Contesting. The posts
> now
> are dealing primarily with the political issues over which we have ZERO
> control and worse, many seem to believe that politicians can and would
> guarantee an end to CC&Rs and no further raids of our frequencies in
> exchange for our microwave frequencies. For those who believe this to be
> the
> case I have a bridge I would like to sell you - it runs between the
> Boroughs
> of Manhatten and Brooklyn. In any case the spectrum discussion no longer
> is
> germane to a VHF Contesting Reflector.
>
> Many appear to think that the ARRL is impotent and uses protection of our
> freqencies to raise money which is then uses for other purposes. It is
> possible to complain about the ARRL in many respects but the job they do
> on
> spectrum defense is truly amazing. We have lost nothing below 30 MHz since
> the CB days while we have gained the WARC bands. In the face of unending
> pressure on our microwave allocations we have maintained our own. IMHO the
> ARRL CEO Dave Sumner K1ZZ has few peers in the area of spectrum defense,
> nationally or internationally. It is just because the ARRL fights tooth
> and
> nail that we still have the frequencies that we do. Even in the face of
> entreanched interests like BPL with the full backing of the Executive
> Branch
> the ARRL has prevailed by showing the technology to be flawed and a
> massive
> spectrum polluter. So read N0AX' recent post again and be thankful that
> the
> ARRL is as effective as it is in this area.
>
> Gentleman (and ladies) we have the VHF SS coming up in less than two
> weeks.
> There has been almost nothing on this Reflector about this contest. We
> have
> other issues - wintertime is traditionally when we think and act about
> improving our VHF stations so that they will work better during the warm
> weather. So let us now stop talking about spectrum issues. No further
> posts
> on spectrum issues will be accepted for the time being.
>
> --Gene W3ZZ
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