On 15 Feb 2012, at 19:16CET, mal hamilton wrote:
It has been stated on here that although it has been agreed to allocate a MF
slot to radio amateurs, national governments might take a different view and
not implement it.
This has always been the case. You are talking about governments of
sovereign states, who have the authority to decide not to allocate a particular band.
To take some examples:
1) for many years French amateurs did not have access to 160m,
2) we still do not have a 3.4GHz allocation,
3) what sort of access we have to 50MHz depends on where we live - it ranges from a useful power level to none at all,
3) even now the USA does not have a 136kHz band.
From time to time you have referred to the EU as if it were a sort of United States of Europe. Suppose this did happen, there is no guarantee that the amateur service would be regulated by the federal government. We would not necessarily have the equivalent of the American FCC - the matter might be reserved to the Member States.
Be grateful that the historical record of the UK licensing authority has been favourable to the amateur service.
