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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:27:12 +0000
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Subject: Re: LF: Re: WRC-12 Approves the New 472-479 kHz Amateur Radio
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Jim,
 Your final sentence further underlines a point I have made on a couple
of occasions. It is not just the hard work by national societies but the
perceived image of the amateur radio operator as a responsible
experimenter and innovator. Exhibiting these qualities adds credibility
to our various societies' efforts.

Anyway very many congrats to all involved



On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 20:23 +0000, James Moritz wrote:
> Dear Mal, LF group,
> 
> > I just had a listen and you are correct in fact I doubt if there is enough
> > space for any radio amateur to communicate without interference from such
> > beacons.
> 
> So which beacons can you hear? On what frequencies?
> 
> Remember it is the beacons who will be the primary band users when the 
> 475kHz band comes into being, so the primary concern will be us amateurs not 
> interfering with them, rather than the other way round.
> 
> > Next question who was the person or persons that recommended this part of
> > the MF spectrum for radio amateur use ??
> 
> It is more a matter of amateurs struggling to gain access to any part of 
> this frequency range - remember, these frequencies have been fully occupied 
> for nearly a century now. The incumbents are tenaciously defending their 
> spectrum "territory" even if they are not really using it for anything. 
> Getting allocated any segment of spectrum is a triumph that required a lot 
> of hard work by many national amateur societies on behalf of their members.
> 
> Cheers, Jim Moritz
> 73 de M0BMU 
> 
> 

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73 es gd dx de Pat G4GVW, Nr Felixstowe, East Coast, UK