KA6MWT sez Reallocate 10meters to CB?!!!
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>Personally, I find the "bootleggers" much more interesting to talk to than
>the hams. It also gives me a chance to work on my Spanish. Any time you try
>to cram 4 million people into 40 channels you're going to have a problem.
>I think that we should reallocate a big chunk of 10m to CB. And give them
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>some VHF/UHF also. After all, the "waves" belong to the citizens. Seems
>sad that after allocations for government, business, international satellites,
>common carrier, amateur, etc., that the citizens are left with 40 channels.
>Now I know how the American Indians feel.
>
>-Roger Bly (ka6mwt)
Sigh. Unless you're just flame-baiting it's pretty obvious to me, at least, that you
are simply not in touch with the situation. First off, the actual CB band ends at 27.405,
the bootleggers aren't satisfied with just usurping the 27.4051-28.0 slice, OH NO! They've
gotta start running AM-SSB-FM voice in the 28.0-28.2 area as well. On top of that, there's
bootleggers BELOW the 11m CB band as well, some running as low as 25.5MHz! So, your argument
about the CBers being "..4 million people into (on) 40 channels.." is completly without a
shred of truth.
I have absolutly no objections to allocating the CBers some more space, so long as it does
NOT impact Amateur bands. Give 'em a legal slice from 27.4051-27.9 and make FM legal, I'd
go for that as long as there was some more vigorous enforcement against those that cross
over the 28.0 line.
And another thing Mister, if I were you I wouldn't brag about talking to bootleggers, it's
considered gauche and might very well prove to be hazardous to your LICENSE!
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Sorgatz has pretty much hit it on the head. And it's not like it's hard to
get a ham license, y'know....
(are there officially any CB licensees anymore? the service exists in the
rules, but, gee, without licenses, there's no count of the users -- maybe we
can mount a charge to have 11m assigned to the amateur service again 8) ).
bill wb9ivr
sohl,william h
The FCC gave up issuing licenses for CB at least 15 years ago. All
one needs today is the CB rig. NO license required.
Despite that, I see no probability that the FCC would reassign the CB
frequencies to hams. The CB channels, whether one cares about them
or not are used and are heavily populated. Also
as others have pointed out, the usual "uncrowded
conditions" of our 10m band doesn't provide any solid argument in favor
of enlarging the 10m band.
Seems to me we need to better utilize 10m before we ask for more
adjacent frequencies to the 10m band. I don't see why many local
net type operations can't use 10m, especially at night. I'd
think that would be better than running the same net on a 2m
repeater or 2m simplex.
Just my thoughts.
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Anthony S. Pelliccio
> And another thing Mister, if I were you I wouldn't brag about talking to
> bootleggers, it's considered gauche and might very well prove to be
> hazardous to your LICENSE! ^^^^^^
^^^^^^
Not to mention Illegal! Besides, who'd
really want to talk to all those lids on
11m? Not me, that's for sure. We've got
enough CB transplants on 2m already!
Tony
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>get a ham license, y'know....
Anyone with this opinion clearly hasn't participated in a V.E. session and
seen the applicants sweating out the exam. True it's not nearly as hard as
it used to be, but it's still a challenge for most people.
Steve...AI7W
Brad Fisher
: Seems to me we need to better utilize 10m before we ask for more
: adjacent frequencies to the 10m band. I don't see why many local
: net type operations can't use 10m, especially at night. I'd
: think that would be better than running the same net on a 2m
: repeater or 2m simplex.
I've had many nice qso's on 10m during the evenings with local hams.
Not much going on around here for 10m net action tho ... except
for WB7CRK, Larry out here on the east side, who conducts a
crosslink to 2 meters. Gives the new no-coders a 'lil taste of HF.
Last summer we had several out of state checkin's ... Washington,
Montana, and such.
There is still a bit of a problem with getting a decent ground wave
signal ... and the lack of hams with a rig, or the ticket with the
privileges :-).
Hmmmm ... I wonder if anyone around here is doing 10m packet?
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