[Fourlanders] Fwd: Our competitive deficit: Concerns over NTIA moves on DoD Spectrum

[Kim]

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73, Kim - WG8S


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>     Subject: [10GHz-Up] Our competitive deficit: Concerns over NTIA moves on DoD Spectrum
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>     Hi Folks!
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>     The NTIA is developing a shared spectrum strategy that leverages the current primary user's swaths of spectrum for use by cellular, non-terrestrial and other networks.  As Amateur Radio's VHF+ bands have a strong dependence as secondary users to the DoD's primary user status we can expect further spectrum losses in these higher frequency bands unless we  can establish some protected carveouts and the rationales to have them.
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>     The article below mentions 3.1-3.45 GHz as a target band of this NTIA initiative, but 5 & 10 GHz are on the block as well as other bands.  
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>     Several key points come to mind:
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>     1. College and university educators largely believe that Amateur Radio is old fashioned and not relevant.
>     I can cite specifics, but I would prefer not to embarass professors for their attitudes and the types of students selected in many post-graduate programs.  I reviewed 80+ resumes of Doctoral candidates interested in RF from one  extremely well-regarded institution.   Only ONE (1!) had an Amateur Radio license, and less than a handful had done anything hands-on.  On the other hand,  almost every individual had experience modeling RF in MATLAB. :-)
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>     2. Kids are not building anything physical.  OK, this is overstated, but kids who played in dirt with the water hose when they were little, later built buildings and dams.  Same goes with radio experiences.  You don't see kids building stuff and one must ask, "Why?".
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>     The answer has a lot of factors contributing to the situation including, but certainly not limited to this list.
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>     1.  Screen-based entertainment/amusement and too much time spent immersed in social media.
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>     2.  Sports activities - both as a participant & spectator.  The balance is tilting towards the spectating aspect of sports as evidenced by the increase in juvenile obesity.  (Side note: Whatever happened to the President's Physical Fitness Award?)
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>     3.  Academic emphasis to the exclusion of vocational or manual skills.  We've taken vocational skill training out of schools and replaced them with an academic and other programs. In the process, we have disaffected many students who once used those paths to access useful careers, or came around to academia later on through vocationally-driven skills and interests.  All the while, we have seen a drop in overall academic scores at every level education and sector of society.
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>     4. Modern housing arrangements limit mechanical activities.  Whether in a multi-family dwelling or stand-alone home, the space and the tolerance for certain activities is simply not permitted, restricted or socially discouraged.  It's not just a PRB-1 issue, but broader.  You don't see kids working on motors, building useful solar arrays, building a tree house, launching rockets, customizing and flying drones and when you do, someone complains to the police, to code officials, or to child protective services.
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>     https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/ntia-develop-national-spectrum-strategy-2023
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>     So while I am excited for the pending release of the ICOM IC-905, it will not save our higher bands.  What Amateur Radio needs is allies in communities of all types across the nation who understand that we are so structurally constricted that people can't explore in constructive areas and ways.  
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>     Thanks for taking the time to read this.
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>     73,
>     J. Gordon Beattie, Jr., W2TTT 
>     201.314.6964 
>     W2TTT at ATT.NET 
>     Gordon.BeattieJr at VIAVISolutions.com 
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>     Get On The Air! 
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