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- From: chuck@eng.umd.edu (Chuck Harris - WA3UQV)
- Subject: Re: 430mhz band under th
- Message-ID: <1993Jan02.200308.16355@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 20:03:08 GMT
- Organization: University of Maryland, Department of Electrical Engineering
- References: <1hm407INNqjn@network.ucsd.edu> <1992Dec28.235602.1@ttd.teradyne.com> <8228@lib.tmc.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec28.235602.1@ttd.teradyne.com> rice@ttd.teradyne.com writes:
- >Excuse Me ? "Invited" to use the spectrum. Where does the FCC say that ANY
- >Amateur has to be INVITED to transmit on a frequency? This kind of attitude
- >is a good part of What's wrong with ham radio today. Some people think they
- >have a god given right to a portion of the spectrum. It's theirs - they
- >paid for it - an no one's going to take it away from them. Pure unadulterated
- >BULLSHIT.
-
- In article <8228@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >This kind of attitude is a good part of What's wrong with ham radio today.
- >Some people think they have a god given right to use other people's equipment.
- >It's using ham spectrum and they can use it if they damned well please. Pure
- >unadulterated BULLSHIT.
- >
- >Your argument boils down to "If they want to spend $10K on a sophisticated
- >repeater system, they have to make it a public utility". There are two
-
- If you want to park your $10K machine on a public frequency, then you should
- expect it to be used as a public utility. If you are not expecting that,
- then you should move out of the way so that others can use the frequency.
-
- This "I own the frequency" crap IS the largest problem with Ham radio today.
- Nothing compels you to put up a repeater. You do so, in part out of public
- service, in part out technical interest, and in part out of stroking your own
- ego. Nothing wrong with that. The rest of the Ham commumity puts up with your
- hogging of the frequency with your repeater because it expects to be able to
- use it from time to time when it wishes to, or needs to.
-
- No one expects to use your autopatch for free; so control your access codes.
- If you find that someone spends a great deal of time on your machine, remind
- that person that it costs a lot of money to run a repeater, and you can use
- all the help you can get, but don't expect to be able to force that individual
- to pay. This is not a commercial venture. If you still can't deal with your
- "great act of charity", then take your repeater down, and let someone else use
- the allocation. There are plenty of hams out there who would love to put up an
- open repeater on your pair!
-
- 73,
-
- Chuck Harris - WA3UQV
- chuck@eng.umd.edu
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