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Article #208Re: NEWS: Up to 2 years for even small panel cell antennas to be approved in San Francisco
From: Dennis Ferguson
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:16
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:16
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On 2010-07-29, David Kaye <sfdavidkaye2@yahoo.com> wrote: > Larry <noone@home.com> wrote: >>Amateur Radio Relay League, our national ham radio organization that >>coordinates and lobbies and kisses the bureaucrats' asses to keep us on >>the air and keep commercial interests, like sellphone companies, from >>stealing our frequency bands we've had since 1900, with only partial >>success, [....] > > It is *right* that the FCC should take away some ham bands. Ham radio is > experimental radio. There isn't much to experiment with any longer, and the > remaining bands provide plenty of space for experimentation. Most hams don't > experiment at all. They buy lots of equipment and work QSO's halfway around > the world to talk about their rigs. They collect wallpaper. They don't > provide much of a community service, except in those very rare instances of > disasters, and then I don't see that they do that much that can't otherwise be > done by local disaster folks using conventional VHF and UHF 2-way. So in summary, you don't want hams to have the spectrum, but you also don't want commercial guys put up antennas in your neighbourhood so that they can use it. If you'd now complain about how crappy your cell phone works you could score a perfect trifecta. Dennis Ferguson
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