Obviously your grant requests have to be written for the grantor's desires. And we need to transition to making education and technology the main justifications for Amateur Radio in Part 97.1, because the current ones were written when we were providing trained Morse operators to the military, and international friendship before social networks.

But I'm not quite ready to write off public service communications.

Thanks

Bruce

On Mon, Aug 8, 2022, 21:00 Joseph B. Fitzgerald <jfitzgerald@alum.wpi.edu> wrote:

Bruce,

We are substantially in agreement, especially your assertion that there will be a community to use digital geostationary amateur satellites.   But probably not the emergency communication community.  I simply lack the imagination to see how they improve on existing alternatives in that domain.  The essence of my concern is that we need to look for funding using justifications other than emergency communication - we are more likely to get funding by claiming other benefits.  Let's focus our efforts where it will most likely bear fruit. That being said, if someone can use emergency communication as a justification to get funding I would be glad to look silly!

-Joe KM1P

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