I'm not sure how worried people are over 420 - 430 since there's parts of the US you can't operate in those 10 megs. Down there from what I understand, though I could be wrong, is amateur TV. The important thing is we don't lose the 430 - 440 segment because that's where a lot of activity, satellite links included, happens on 70cm. Taking away 450 - 470mhz would also essentially kill both the FRS and GMRS bands as well which, while not always hams, is regularly used by thousands of people.
~73, AC2RF Ron
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Nigel A. Gunn nigel@ngunn.net wrote:
Most of the world doesn't have 420-430 and the rest of the band is only secondary in Europe.
Guess you and your buddies need to start using the lower 10 megs if you don't want to loose it. Most of us survived happily with only the 430-440 bit.
On 21-Feb-11 23:22, Patrick Green wrote:
Auctioning off spectrum that includes the important 435-438 Satellite segment? Let alone that 430-440 is a ham band almost everywhere in the world.
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