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To   : Roy Witt
From : Peter May
Date : Wed May 24 2000 12:39 am

Roy Witt wrote in a message to Oliver Katigbak:


 OK>  Is their a difference from CD radio?

 RW> In the beginning there was 10 and 11 meters and the world was
 RW> fruitfull. The lord decided that there were enough morons in the
 RW> world to occupy a portion of it without having to learn anything
 RW> but; 10-4 Good buddy.  And so he allocated a portion of 11 meters
 RW> to them.

I thought 11 metres was seen as "unused by HAMs" by pirate operators, it 
wascommandered, cheaply made American CB radios were easily available and 
widelyused, not to army war surplus equipment such as the PRC88. Intruder 
watches byamateurs were a waste of time.

Widespread pirating continued, the government did not have the resources 
tocontrol the situation as every man and his dog bought "illegal" CB radio 
gearso they brought out a "CB" licence. At least that's the Australian story, 
Iwas there, I was a pirate.

In a nutshell, if you dont use it you lose it!  This is your wakeup call!
If the Govt sees a portion of spectrum that appears unused (had a listen to HF 
lately?) it can and will reallocate that spectrum.  It may auction the spectrum 
off (revenue raising) to mining companies and the like or reallocate it to 
other purposes.

Cheers,
Peter 
--- timEd 1.10.y2k
 * Origin:       The Junkbox BBS, Perth, Western Australia      (3:690/462)

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