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[IP] ARRL's "private game preserve"




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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:45:44 -0800
From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[Note:  This comment comes from reader Steve Schear.  DLH]

At 15:09 -0800 10/29/03, Steve Schear wrote:
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:09:56 -0800
To: "David P. Reed" <dpreed@xxxxxxxx>
From: Steve Schear <s.schear@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Dewayne-Net] ARRL's "private game preserve"
Cc: dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


At 15:26 -0500 10/29/03, David P. Reed wrote:
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:26:33 -0500
To: dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
        "Dewayne-Net Technology List" <dewayne-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: ARRL's "private game preserve"

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that the ARRL (which does NOT represent all hams) has begun to think of itself as a "spectrum owner" - which it is NOT. Hams who are not ARRL members might want to file amicus briefs making this clear to the courts - that the ARRL does not necessarily represent their interests in the spectrum they hold licenses to.

As an R&D investment, the amateur bands appear to me to have had a piss poor return in recent years - they have played very little role in advancing the radio arts for a decade or more - instead they are becoming a Luddite force that views anything new as bad.

A true spirit of amateur radio would not be working at protecting their ancient radio systems from "harmful interference" - instead they would be working on ways to share bands with new and more effective technologies and high density deployments. They would not be working to preserve "scarcity" but being constructive about solutions that accomodate unbounded scaling of the number of users in a band - in other words to create abundance.

If they can't be constructive, perhaps we should replace the amateur bands with amateur radio NETWORKING bands, where unlicensed radio networks that can scale are mandated.

Free the Ham Bands!

Here, here. A long ago let my ARRL membership lapse. I lost interest in dealing with the on-line prima donnas that frequent their ranks. All the fun radio stuff (e.g., truly random FFH in HF for anti-fade) is prohibited in the ham bands. Any radio enthusiast who wants to advance the radio arts will likely be playing in the unlicensed bands or operating outside the regulations in the amateur bands.

steve

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