Thanks for the info,
The vast majority of the upper band contacts are made in an effort to inflate
scores in ARRL contests by grid circling rovers. The House sub committee
should subpoena the VHF contest logs from the ARRl and look at the behavior of
the grid circlers and captive rovers to determine if ham radio is using these
frequencies in a way that benefits all the citizens of the united states that
own the spectrum.
Its time to use it for a real purpose or give most of it back to people who
will use it to benefit society in general. And yes evil corporations benefit
society by keeping the economy going, like them or not. Ham radio operators
have a long history of integrity, we should not allow the misrepresentation of
the use of these uper frequencies to protect the scores of 10-20 operators in a
contest to stand in the way of using these bands for the good of all americans.
We don't need more than a few mhz per band above 2.3 ghz.
All hams and especially ARRL vhf users or not should be outraged by what is
going on in the upper microwave bands in the name of ham radio.
The original message::
A Major Discussion Event: "Use It or Lose It" has been very active on the
W6YX/Stanford VHF reflector since Wed. morning, 30Dec2009.
"Use It Or Lose It" pertains to Amateur Radio Frequencies, particularly those
above 1200 MHz, as well as comments made by consultant, Dr. Dale Hatfield ,
who has been testifying before the US House Subcommittee on Broadcast Spectrum
Allocation. The hearing concerns the inventory of current spectrum
and what different methods should be considered to help those industries that
are in need of additional spectrum.
The posted discussions on this subject have been posted by a number of well
known weak signal amateur radio operators, most of whom have many years of
amateur and professional experience with microwave and up frequencies.
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