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- From: makinc@hhcs.gov.au (Carl Makin)
- Newsgroups: aus.radio
- Subject: Re: Citizens Band Packet Radio on 70cm
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.090330.595@hhcs.gov.au>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 09:03:30 +1100
- References: <727915797.AA04069@csource.oz.au>
- Organization: Aust. Dept. Health, Housing and Community Services
- Lines: 35
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- In article <727915797.AA04069@csource.oz.au>, Peter.Berrett@f393.n632.z3.fidonet.org (Peter Berrett) writes:
-
- > > What has been worrying to me has been the point, brought
- > > out several times,
- > > about the chaos and poor operating that occurs in the CB
- > > bands.
-
- > An appropriate amount of Radio Inspectors funded from license fees would drive
- > out the unwanted elements.
-
- I don't think so somehow. To employ enough Radio Inspectors and
- equipment them with sufficient equipment would raise the licence
- fees by at least an order of magnitude. Politically not
- acceptable (as business users form largest group of licenced
- users of CB radio) and logistically impractical.
-
- > As for the cost of equipment, a baycom modem
- > including software can be purchased for only $125. If the cb packet band was on
- > VHF, then modified handhelds costing as little as $299 could be used. Total
- > equipment cost of between $425 and $500 would, I think, be acceptable.
-
- VHF is already extremely crowed in the larger cities. There is
- NO way DoTC would place a CB allocation anywhere in the VHF band.
-
- DoTC even refused to allocate 8 extra channels in the UHF band
- for repeater inputs.
-
- Carl.
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- Carl Makin, MVS/ESA Systems Programmer, VAX/VMS Dabbler.
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