Hi All
As I said before the Genie is well
and truly out
of the bottle.
While we debate the issue take a listen.
Laws and Diktats are only obeyed if there is a
sanction. There are no sanctions, so much better to
engender a way of doing things by example and common
purpose.
The point about acres of space on space on VHF is
true but the channelisation of the those frequencies has
a lot to do with the barrenness. If
you read my comments about 4m where locally a very large
number of people had converted PMR kit and were Xtaled up for 70.45 and Sunday
mornings it was joy. Then a certain
organisation with its "Vogon" like
tick the box mentality
balls it all up with a band plan that in short time
killed that activity stone dead. Oh we now have parrot
repeaters and more planned. No body ever dives into an
el cheapo pmr box and learns a bit. Or even understands
the band of fast rising s9+ FM signals on 70.45 which
was the local chat qrg and watering hole out to Croatia. Just
imagine up comes S52XYZ oh please qsy by that time he's
gone heard it happen.
Sorry to bang on but prescriptive control stifles
invention not just technical but operating ingenuity.
And this may dismay you
all, AM is being used on 472 / 479 as we speak! No call
signs no pack drill.
Just got my xtal for
472.5 this morning so about to play with that waggly thing if
any one can read me being an old GAIT.
73 es GL Pete M0FMT IO91UX
