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VK6BE > 40M 19.07.03 15:11l 65 Lines 3038 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: AUSSIES AND THE 40 METER BAND
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From: VK6BE@VK6JY.#ALY.#WA.AUS.OC
To : 40M@WW
Codswallop Andy! Codswallop to use an olde Englyshe expression!
You are complaining at losing what we had in 1929 when my father drove the
very latest in motor cars (Ford A) and we had kerosene lamps for lighting
and tuberculosis and pneumona killed many of our people.. Oh yes then
1938, we were up to the minute with the Austin Six and the Ford V8 (from
the USA).. A six year war followed..
What happened next? Oh yes! amateur radio came back with ten metres and
then oher bands but we in Australia never did get the whole of some of our
bands back, and lost the use of 1.8 mHz and 200 metres.
Now what comes next? In the 50s through to the 70s and 80s we got an
allocation on 21 mhz, 24 mhz, 18 mhz, 10 mhz, and we here got back the use
of 1.8 and the other end of 7. Our only loss was 27 mhz to the CB band. We
also got allocations on VHF UHF and SHF, and the morse requirement was
watered down from 14 wpm with the necessity of operating on 80 metre CW
for a year before we used the other bands, to now zero morse requirement.
Andy, I think we seem to have gained much more than we have lost. I can't
see what you are complaining about. We are well and truly in credit over
1929 and 1938 and 1950 for that matter.
Incidentally I don't think we did this on our own. The amateur societies
throughout the world including the RSGB and the WIA did a great deal
towards getting us the extra privileges.
Cheers,
Bob VK6BE.
> Oh dear we better stop here otherwise I wont be able to stop laughing.
> Lets take a look again at that last statement.
>>> The compromise marked the first time in the history of internationally
>>> coordinated radio spectrum allocation that an HF broadcasting band was
>>> shifted to accommodate the needs of another service.
> Total nonesense !
> The *TRUTH* is that amateurs are only being given back what was taken from
> them!
> It was the amateurs that were booted out to accomodate broadcasters.
> To prove it lets take a look at the history of the 40m amateur band.
> 7.000 - 7.300 Mhz was EXCLUSIVE Region 1 amateur allocation in 1929 according
> to a book written by F.J. Camm in the same period.
> 7.000 - 7.300 Mhz was EXCLUSIVE Region 1 amateur allocation until 1938,
> source - the Wireless Institiute of Australia's own website.
>
> By at least 1960, our status had been reduced to 7.000 - 7.150 Mhz, source
> Radio & Television Engineers Reference Book 3rd edition edited by none other
> than J.P Hawker G3VA.
>
> The *FACTS* are that 7.00 - 7.300 had been EXCLUSIVE amateur allocation since
> Marconi was a lad and that it had been TAKEN from amateurs for broadcasting
> pointless propaganda.
>
> So the reality is that we amateurs are only being given what was *ALREADY
> OURS*
> in the first place.
>
> It's also interesting to note that the term EXCLUSIVE means nothing.
>
> No protection against anything.
>
> We owe thanks to NOBODY, and no amount of waffle from a bunch of amateur
> half wits will change my mind.
>
> - Andy -
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