With the realisation that this is not a limited access reflector and
anyone
can join and monitor the traffic. Let us assume that an official from
Ofcom
has decided to see how their Experimental Permit users are getting along,
and subscribes to the Group.
What does he hear today but a lot of moaning about not being able to
operate
if there are more than two signals in the 4khz allocation and suggestion
of
limiting it to manual morse (Note QRSS is "CW" !) Where he thinks are all
those innovative people who were going to people this allocation with
novel
techniques for using the low power allowed and coexisting in the narrow
allocation. As a professional in the field where manual morse has beed
phased out he may be forgiven for thinking that there is no
experimentation
going on and that there will be no need to extend the permit when it
lapses
next year. Anyway if the operatiors have no use for a 4khz chunk then what
point is there in considering an allocation here are there are no larger
slots available?.
Yes they dont think like amateurs in the "corridors of power"
One final question why did it matter that it sounded like bedlam in this
country today? I though everyone was trying to see whether there signal
could be heard in Spain, not in the UK. I havent seen any complaint from
Jose-Manual yet !
I think some awareness of the nature of this reflector needs to be taken
into account, before you let out all your histrionics. You could be
sinking
a awfull lot of work by several people to get this allocation at
all.....dont mess it up !
Cheers de Alan G3NYK
