On Apr 22, 11:52 am, wrote:
On Apr 21, 11:09?am, wrote:


But you can't force amateurs to operate on certain bands. They can be
encouraged, but not forced. So the question becomes "what will make
the VHF/UHF amateur bands more attractive to hams?"

Perhaps a new generation of near-geosynchronous amateur satellites
would attract more activity. Or the deployment of a highspeed linked
repeater network. But those things require sizable infrastructure
investments by amateurs.

it would require not money but a Govt foot in the rear to gain Acess
to those orbital spots there is already something of a traffic jam

OTOH one thing that might help is for old hams to learn more about
about how we can in fact in Do such things as EME I ended up giving
going abit about Modern EME and Ms work at our local hamfest ( I may
end up riding a circut giving tlaks on the subject in the UP but that
is another thread