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Take my advice, give up on HF too. It's a dying allocation with limited
usefulness and only accessible by "elite" hams who can pass a test best left
to dinosaurs.

It's attitudes like that which endanger the ENTIRE amateur radio
service, not just HF allocations.

Were you around, sir, when, thanks largely to lobbying by UPS,
half of the amateur 220MHz band was taken away? Did you know that UPS
never did a bloody thing with that band, after fighting so hard for it?
In fact, I don't know of ANY commercial radio service that's currently
using that little 2MHz slice that the lobbyists fought so hard for.

Have you been asleep during the arguments about allegedly Part 15
RFID tags and other garbage that the FCC wants to allow in the 430MHz
region?

How about the crap going on at 2.4GHz, with nine zillion types of
cordless phones, wireless Internet, and Lord only knows what else?

I wonder if you'll be just as indifferent when commercial
interests start sniffing around more of the 6m, 2m, and 70cm
allocations? Trust me, they will, unless the amateur radio community, as
a whole, stands up and says "No, we need those bands."

I also find it extremely difficult to believe that someone cannot
copy 5 WPM Morse code. That's all that is required nowadays to get on
HF. Not 13, not 20, not 10. Five lousy words per minute. My 88-year old
father could copy that fast, fercryinoutloud!

I've never thought of myself as "elite." That's silly. I am,
however, bloody proud of my efforts to win my first license (in 1977),
and to upgrade to Extra in 2000. I may not have had to go through the
high-speed CW test, but I can tell you that the written was no picnic,
even for someone with my experience.

I won't miss HF when it's gone, but I will enjoy the high speed internet
access when it arrives!

If you had paid any attention at all in your studies of
electronics and RF theory, you would know that BPL is a massive threat
to HF allocations for EVERY SERVICE that uses them, not just amateur.
We're talking international broadcast, aviation, marine, the works!

Tell you what; We won't miss you when you're gone, either. If
you're so bloody interested in the Internet that you're willing to
sacrifice a huge chunk of the entire HF spectrum to get it through a
known-damaging technology, why in the Multiverse did you even bother to
get your ham ticket?

Come to think of it, why don't you just go turn your ticket in and
stick to the Internet which you are obviously so in love with? If you're
truly as apathetic as you sound, I think the amateur service can easily
do without you.


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Dr. Anton Squeegee, Director, Dutch Surrealist Plumbing Institute
(Known to some as Bruce Lane, KC7GR)
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