mpackard@uok.UUCP (08/03/84)
#N:uok:2800015:000:241 uok!mpackard Aug 3 00:37:00 1984 ][ The way I figure it, all hams just want to use morse code and ragchew about antennas and HF is all they need. Lets give the VHF and up frequencys to someone who would put them to more efficient use than the hams who don't use it anyway.
Socci.PA@XEROX.ARPA (08/06/84)
Speak for yourself - who ever said that the government and private industry own the ether? I haven't worked HF for a year (not because I don't like it), but instead am very active in VHF/UHF repeater activities. These include providing emergency communiations in times of disasters and constructing networks of repeaters covering large parts of the state of California. I've learned a lot about radio doing this, and I think it would be a shame if private enterprise finally choked off the last activity on these bands. The repeater controllers we use put most commercial ones to shame. These have been developed by hams, not GE and Motorola, who are still living back in the 1950's. Someday, I'm sure that the commercial radio industry will catch up with what's been developed by the hams . . . Vance Socci N6FXE ...-.-