On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 05:21:54PM -0500, KI9A@aol.com wrote:
> Take look at page 98 of the 2/04 QST....
>
> More non-contesters wanting to limit us to less than 100kc of 40!! Plus the
> other bands. This guy is looking for our views on this proposal.
>
> Wonder if he also proposes limiting nets, skeds, ragchewers & pig farmers to
> a subband? ;-)
Taken to its logical conclusion, you could subdivide the phone (or CW)
bands by activity type (and hhey why not - let's subdivide by language, too)
and have basically one channel for each activity. I mean, why not? We have:
Contesting
DXing
Ragchewing
Wideband SSB
Emergency Net
QRP
Kids
SSTV
Digital SSTV
Digital Voice
Phone Patches
etc. etc.
This is the same reason I find DX windows appalling - the moment you start
regulating frequency space by activity, you open the door wide open to
everyone else wanting _their_ activity to be protected, and the logical
end result is that everyone loses. DX windows, rag chewing windows - just
say no to windows!
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University of Texas at Austin Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R
Department of the Computer Sciences Central Texas DX & Contest Club
Taylor Hall TAY 2.124 Maintainer of Linux on Laptops
Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/
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