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- Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
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- From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
- Subject: Re: 430 mhz band under th (now repeater costs)
- In-Reply-To: jreese@NeoSoft.com's message of Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:58:58 GMT
- Message-ID: <PHR.92Dec31140622@napa.telebit.com>
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- Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
- References: <9212301356.aa22097@cbda7.apgea.army.mil> <8257@lib.tmc.edu>
- <1992Dec31.150918.17046@ke4zv.uucp> <C053IC.6H4@NeoSoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:06:22 GMT
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- In article <C053IC.6H4@NeoSoft.com> jreese@NeoSoft.com (Jim Reese) writes:
-
- ...but only if that open machine serves a larger user base. As I
- have said before, not all closed radios have low activity. There
- are some closed systems that are very active. Do these active
- systems not deserve a frequency just because they are closed?
-
- What I object to here is the automatic assumption that if it's closed, it's
- low usage. This is simply not true in all cases. It's very hard for a
- frequency coordination group to determine who is "better" using their
- frequency in a fair and equitable way. To do otherwise leaves them open to
- lawsuit, and they simply don't want the liability.
-
- I don't see any argument from first principles that closed systems
- deserve exclusive use of any spectrum space at all, no matter how
- active they are. If someone wants to run a closed repeater system,
- maybe they should use a commerical band instead of the amateur service.
- I can think of some reasons for allowing some closed systems (if active),
- but I'm not totally swayed.
-