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- From: Peter.Berrett@f393.n632.z3.fidonet.org (Peter Berrett)
- Newsgroups: aus.radio
- Subject: Re: Citizens Band Packet Radio on 70cm
- Message-ID: <728019082.AA05865@csource.oz.au>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 11:54:37
- Sender: gateway@csource.oz.au
- Lines: 47
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- > | used bands are extremely tenuous given their lack of
- > use.
- >
- > And how would you know this?
-
- Well I just happen to be licensed (VK3KAT, formerly VK3KEW). Plus I keep
- regular track of Amateur news on bulletin boards and through ARA. Unlike many
- Amateurs, however, the fact that I am a licensed Ham does not predispose me to
- an anti-CB attitude.
- > So how do a bunch of non-qualified CB'ers (people barely
- > able to fill out
- > a licence application correctly, from what the DoTC tell
- > me; did you know
- > there is a form for CB'ers (with big letters and lots of
- > space) and a form
- > for everybody else?) fit into this scheme? Do most CB'ers
- > know what
- > "intermodulation" means, for example? Also, look where
- > the 2nd harmonic
- > of 476 MHz falls; expect big restrictions on UHF CB when
- > GSM gets going...
- > (All the more reason to work for a "real" licence)
- >
- | As a Commonwealth Public Servant I am well aware that most people
- have trouble with government forms despite their simplification in recent
- years. As for your gross generalisation about Cbers, on the Cb bands are a wide
- variety of people, some technically orientated some not. It is a fallacious
- argument to suggest that one needs to be technically orientated to enjoy a
- communications medium. The main advantage of CB, and I think it still holds
- today, is the fact that anyone irrespective of technical ability can use it.
- This means that people who might otherwise be deterred because of the time and
- effort needed for study for a Ham license can get involved in radio. Granted
- there are a lot of idiots on the band but there are also a lot of keen dx-ers
- and people just wanting to chat without getting involved in the intracacies of
- radio.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > Recent? I thought it was 1976 or so...
- >
- In the context of how long Amateur Radio has been around, Cb is
- a comparitively recent entrant.
-
- Peter VK3KAT (Miouw!)
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- * Origin: Spectrum Radio - Melbourne's All Band Radio BBS (3:632/393.0)
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