Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4191 invoked from network); 15 May 2003 19:24:11 -0000 Received: from warrior.services.quay.plus.net (212.159.14.227) by mailstore with SMTP; 15 May 2003 19:24:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 850 invoked from network); 15 May 2003 19:24:15 -0000 Received: from post.thorcom.com (193.82.116.70) by warrior.services.quay.plus.net with SMTP; 15 May 2003 19:24:15 -0000 X-SQ: A Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 19GOKE-0006fv-AC for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Thu, 15 May 2003 20:23:34 +0100 Received: from [62.253.164.43] (helo=mta3-svc.business.ntl.com) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 19GOK9-0006fm-Ui for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Thu, 15 May 2003 20:23:30 +0100 Received: from l8p8y6 ([62.252.206.14]) by mta3-svc.business.ntl.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with SMTP id <20030515192329.PUVY5914.mta3-svc.business.ntl.com@l8p8y6> for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 20:23:29 +0100 Message-ID: <000201c31b0f$0a1df260$0ecefc3e@l8p8y6> From: "hamilton mal" To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org References: <5.1.0.14.0.20030515120743.00aeeca8@gemini.herts.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 17:49:31 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Subject: Re: LF: No US Ham Band Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-13.5 required=5.0tests=ORIGINAL_MESSAGE,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,QUOTE_TWICE_1,REFERENCESversion=2.53 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Moritz" To: ; Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 12:27 PM Subject: Re: LF: No US Ham Band > Dear John, LF group, Lowfers > > Very sorry to hear about the FCC's absurd decision. The ARRL report reads:- > > >The FCC said a new amateur LF allocation is not justified "when balanced > against the greater public interest of an interference-free power grid." > > Have they got this the right way round? Virtually all radio services on LF > suffer a continual and steadily increasing amount of interference from the > power grid, but I have yet to hear of an instance where radio signals cause > interference problems to the power grid. All seems a bit "Alice in > Wonderland"...as if a secretary somewhere had made a typo, and no-one who > knew anything about the subject had ever checked it. Sounds odd to me, especially in the enlightened USA. Look at the progress on LF in Europe and RUSSIA, well ahead in Global thinking and progress. What does the ARRL membership have to say? ODD !!!!!!!!! G3KEV > > Cheers, Jim Moritz > 73 de M0BMU > > >