🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello to all,

This message is being forwarded to all organizations on the potential
serious and ridiculous implications of this latest threat to ham radio as we
know it.
I am already waxing up the guns ready to fire a devastating and logical
letter to the congressmen of our area as well as the powers to be in the FCC
and so on to immediately squelch this ridiculous threat to amateur radio.

Please forward to as many people as possible!!!!!!!!!

I realize this is for the discussion of SKYWARN but without 2 Meters and 440
it would cause some major problems within SKYWARN.

73,Rob-KD1CY.
SKYWARN Training Coordinator
Greater New Bedford ARES Emergency Coordinator

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>Date:     Tue May 28, 1996 10:26 pm  EST
>Source-Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 19:46:49 -0700
>From:     Michael L. Ardai
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>BCC:    * BR Weirich / MCI ID: 734-9113
>Subject:  URGENT ARRL NEDIV BULLETIN
>Message-Id: 73960529032637/0003765414DC1EM
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>ok guys this is the time to boot up your computers and send those e-mail
>messages out. barb
>
>        *****ARRL NEW ENGLAND DIVISION SPECIAL BULLETIN 96-9A*****
>
>                           QST to all Amateurs
>
>                                May, 1996
>
>                              Strafford, VT
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>NEW ENGLAND DIVISION DIRECTOR           NEW ENGLAND DIVISION VICE DIRECTOR
>Bill Burden WB1BRE                      Warren Rothberg WB1HBB
>wb1bre@arrl.org                         wb1hbb@arrl.org
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>    ************** 2 Meter AND 70 cm BANDS THREATENED ***************
>                   __________________________________
>
>        THIS IS  NO  JOKE!!  ARRL HAS LEARNED THAT IN PREPARATION FOR THE
>WORLD RADIO CONFERENCE  IN  1997,  REPRESENTATIVES OF THE LOW-EARTH-ORBIT
>(LEO)  INDUSTRY  PROPOSED  A   LIST  OF  CANDIDATE  FREQUENCY  BANDS  FOR
>REALLOCATION TO, AND EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE MOBILE SATELLITE SERVICE.  THIS
>LIST INCLUDES 144- 148 MHZ (THE CURRENT AMATEUR 2 M BAND) AND 420-450 MHZ
>(THE CURRENT AMATEUR 70 CM BAND)!
>        IF THIS EFFORT WERE TO BE SUCCESSFUL,  IT  WOULD  MEAN THE END OF
>AMATEUR  OPERATIONS  ON THESE TWO MOST HEAVILY UTILIZED  AMATEUR  VHF/UHF
>BANDS!
>
>        I have included the text of Dave Sumner's upcoming  editorial for
>July  QST  in  this bulletin.  ARRL, as the principal  representative  of
>Amateur  Radio  in  Washington,  is  actively pursuing this issue as this
>bulletin is being written.  Dave's call to action is serious!!   We could
>lose these bands if we do not take action now!!
>        Club  presidents  and  newsletter  editors:    please  make  this
>information available to your membership as soon as possible.
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Follows the text of Dave Sumner's July QST editorial:
>
>
>                              WRITE NOW!!!!
>
>     Get out a pen and paper,  or boot up your computer.  There's work to
>be done!  Your help is needed  to  defend  two  meters  and  70 cm.  Yes,
>that's right -- the two most popular and  crowded  amateur VHF/UHF bands!
>But don't panic, and don't "go ballistic."
>     Here's what's happening, and what you can do about it.
>     The    United    States  is  preparing  for  the  1997  ITU    World
>Radiocommunication Conference, WRC-97.  In the past, the public has  been
>able   to  participate  in  the  preparations  for  such  conferences  by
>responding to  FCC  Notices  of  Inquiry.   In March, the FCC announced a
>streamlining of its  International  Bureau's  preparatory  processes  for
>WRCs.  Under the  new  scheme,  the NOIs have been eliminated in favor of
>increased emphasis on WRC Advisory Committees.
>     For  WRC-97, a series of  Informal  Working  Groups  (IWGs)  of  the
>Advisory Committee has been created to  address  specific  agenda  items.
>The output of each IWG will go directly to a joint FCC-NTIA-Department of
>State  Steering  Committee  of  the  Advisory  Committee.   There,  draft
>proposals as received from the IWGs will be reviewed and forwarded to the
>FCC  for  possible  release  as  preliminary  U.S.  proposals for  public
>comment.
>     In announcing the streamlined WRC preparatory process, the FCC tried
>to reassure  those who might be concerned about reduced opportunities for
>public participation:   "Interested parties should note that input to the
>Advisory Committee may be  sent  at any time directly to the Chair of the
>WRC-97  Advisory  Committee;  the  Chairs  of  the  Advisory  Committee's
>Informal Working Groups;  Cecily C.    Holiday, the FCC's federal officer
>of the WRC-97 Advisory Committee,on  C.  Ladson, the alternate
>federal officer."
>     Hold  that  thought while we shift gears to  the  substance  of  the
>issue.
>     One  of  the WRC-97 agenda items includes consideration of  possible
>additional frequency  allocations  for  the  mobile-  satellite  service.
>So-called "little LEOs,"  low-earth orbit satellites below 1 GHz, already
>have allocations.  Their  proponents  claim  these are inadequate and are
>trying for more.  The  needs  of  little LEOs are being addressed in IWG-
>2A, chaired by Warren Richards of  the  Department  of  State.   The ARRL
>technical  relations  staff participates in IWG-2A to  represent  Amateur
>Radio interests.
>     At the May 7 IWG-2A meeting, an industry  representative  proposed a
>list of "candidate bands" for little LEOs.  The list includes a number of
>bands  that  would  negatively  impact  existing  services,  and does not
>include  others  that  would  be  technically  more feasible but to which
>strong  objection  from  incumbents  could be expected -- the point being
>that some  political,  rather than purely technical, judgment already has
>influenced the list.
>     Incredibly, 144-148 and 420-450 MHz were included on the list!  This
>is the first time  in  memory  that another service has been proposed for
>the two-meter amateur band.  We must make sure it is also the last time.
>     We do not need to explain to ARRL members the extensive use that  is
>made of these bands by amateurs.    The two bands provide the backbone of
>our local public service communications effort.   Voice  and data, mobile
>and fixed, even television -- the list of  present amateur uses is a long
>one,  and  of future uses is even longer.   Both  are  already  used  for
>satellite services  and  for  moonbounce  and  extended-range terrestrial
>operations requiring extremely  sensitive  receivers  and  high levels of
>effective radiated power.
>     Apparently we did need  to  explain  all  this  to  the  little  LEO
>industry representatives, so we did  just that -- both at the meeting and
>iup letter on May  15.  We also explained that we had to regard
>the matter as extremely serious.  No one with the slightest background in
>radiocommunication  could  possibly  believe  that  a  mobile-  satellite
>service could be introduced into either band without disrupting  existing
>and future amateur operations.  Therefore, we said, if we did not receive
>assurance that they would be taken off the list of candidate bands by the
>deadline for this issue of QST, we would have no choice but  to bring the
>matter to the attention of the entire membership.
>     The response we  received  was  unsatisfactory.   In effect, we were
>told the little LEO  industry  would  consider  our  views but that until
>their  spectrum  needs  are  satisfied,   all  bands  must  remain  under
>consideration.
>     So, this is a call to  action.    We must get across to the industry
>and government participants in IWG-2A that the  144-  148 MHz and 420-450
>MHz  bands  cannot  be  considered  as  candidates  for  mobile-satellite
>services.  We need to drive the point home  so  forcefully,  with so many
>grassroots responses, that no one is ever tempted to try this again.
>     Which brings us back to that invitation for "interested parties"  to
>send input "at any time." There's no time like the present!  Here are the
>key addresses, including those of the mobile-satellite industry folks who
>seem to have started the ruckus:
>
>Cecily C. Holiday, International Bureau, FCC, Washington, DC
>20554; choliday@fcc.gov; FAX (202) 418-0748.
>Warren G. Richards, Chair, IWG-2A, Department of State, CIP
>2529, Washington, DC 20520; richardswg@ms6820wpoa.us-
>state.gov; FAX (202) 647-7407.
>Tracey Weisler, FCC Rep., IWG-2A, International Bureau, FCC,
>Washington, DC 20554; tweisler@fcc.gov; FAX (202) 418-2824.
>Mary Kay Williams, Final Analysis, Inc., 7500 Greenway
>Center, Ste. 1240, Greenbelt, MD 20770; FAX (301) 474-3228.
>Leslie Taylor, LTA, 6800 Carlynn Court, Bethesda,
>MD 20817; ltaylor@lta.com; FAX (301) 229-3148.
>
>     Do comment.   But be civil.  Don't abuse people who are simply doing
>their jobs.  We  have to get across that casting covetous eyes on amateur
>bands is counterproductive, and contrary  to  the  public  interest.   To
>accomplish this we need a lot of comments, including yours.  But remember
>that the objective is to educate and  persuade,  not  to  intimidate.  We
>don't need to.  The facts are on our side.
>     To monitor the FCC's ongoing WRC-97 preparations, visit  its  WRC-97
>home page at:  http://www.fcc.gov/ib/wrc97/.
>     Write now. Right now! -- David Sumner, K1ZZ
>

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