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DL4KCK > IARU 13.12.96 00:40l 57 Lines 3107 Bytes #-10601 (0) @ EU
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de DL4KCK @ DB0WDR.#NRW.DEU.EU (Klaus)
to IARU @ EU
Hello all,
browsing over several items in the box I found this very small debate
(is nobody reading IARU, or did you get personal mail, Jan?)
On the note "lobbyism" in Jans message I remembered a remark sent to
me by a participant of the Tel Aviv IARU conference. Quote:
"The powers that be seem to have it in mind still to protect a small
narrow-band part of each allocation and allow the rest to be given up!"
This is meant for the higher bands above 2 m, but the "spirit" is the
same... In Region 2 they have lost 30 MHz of the 13 cm band already:
2305 - 2320 and 2345 - 2360 MHz will be sold to the highest bidding
telecom giant. If they like to use these bands in a world wide phone
network via satellite, we in Europe are the "lucky" ones too - many
ATV repeaters are using that space partly!
Big ARRL was fighting like hell to retain the narrow band section
2300 - 2305 MHz... Any amateur signal with more bandwidth than 3 KHz
seems to be devils junk to most of the IARU oldtimers who do not
understand modern communication technology (quoting another participant
of the Tel Aviv conference). And as they dislike Packet Radio they
do not really want it on 144 MHz.
Some time ago there was a 144 MHz port at a school clubstation with
mailbox in Cologne. Many students and newcomers having small pockets
were delighted about this cheap opportunity to learn more about
amateur radio and related computer stuff. Now they depend on "private"
nodes which help them into the "official" net since the 2 m port was
closed according to IARU rules...
On this level another strange debate came up recently in the german
PR net. Some people want to exclude the transfer of pictures in 7plus
files from the PR net, to them this is not amateur radio; only one-
to-one qsos are counting as such. Thus we shall reduce amateur traffic
even on 70 and 23 cm too where PR is nearly the only sign of ham life
24 hours a day besides ATV repeaters and beacons (at least in Germany
we have a decent packet network with link frequencies at the edges of
the 1240 - 1300 MHz band and with mailboxes in nearly every big town).
Once again lobbyism - or pure blindness for future challenges?
Now referring to DH0GHU: some VHF "contests" and rare "propagation"
peaks cannot help much to keep the traffic counter tickling at the
telecommunication authorities, and without "JA-made transceivers"
we would have no chance to fill all our bands with amateur traffic!
(Sorry, I have no quoting automatism to fill more lines...)
I am using my allmode trx especially for "transferring pictures"
in SSTV on 144,5 and FAX on 144,7 MHz because I like that most -
therefore I agree with the new 2 m bandplan that retains all the
specialists calling frequencies. Like many other hams I have no
possibility to erect big guns for satellite working and hf dx on the
roof of my house that is not my own. So I have to choose "low level
amateur radio" if any, or should I better leave these holy bands and
surf in the internet?
73 Klaus, DL4KCK @ DB0WDR (qrv on 1240 MHz PR since 3/95, hi)
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