[600MRG] Any FCC news on 600m?

[Edward R Cole]

At 11:47 AM 1/2/2014, dave.riley3 wrote:
>HI HI,
>
>Reminds me of old goat ham on 75m every afternoon:
>" CQ CQ NO KIDS NO LIDS NO SPACE CADETS THIS IS W2......  "
>
>No ham in a can beats this guy!!  Wish we could run Hastifisti 
>Scratchi commercials...
>
>73s  DE Dave @ /17
>
>Happy New Year too...

Well,  I think some of the technical challenges getting on 600m may 
tend to "weed out" a lot of this.  At least it will at the start.

Once there is a fair amount of plug-n-play equipment that one can 
merely slap down plastic for, then self-regulation will be more 
challenged.  But I "get" the concern being expressed.

My first transmitter* had 11-10m on the band knob, and 11m was still 
amateur radio.  I was a Novice so never operated as a ham on 11m and 
never was interested in CB as a hobby, since I was already a 
ham.  Certainly many have come into ham radio on that path over the 
years.  Not to say the vocal ham (above) was one.

But I do see change in operating practises that seem to have come 
over from CB.  Often recognizable in jargon used on the air.

*Heathkit DX-35  First licensed in Nov. 1958 as KN8MWA

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