Comment Licenses prevent doing what is license-free!!! (Score 1) 476
I agree with your comments.
Regardless of our allocation status on 902-928, there isn't any development of the band. Lack of a primary allocation should never have stopped the manufacturing of radios for the band either! Even conversion of commercial equipment has not evolved to what I would have expected. Now I have simply lowered my expectations of the service & its' participants. Considering the comments here, on QRZ, eHam & newgroups, I am actually embarassed to be lumped in with these shortsighted twits!
What I find amazing is the fact all these backpatters fail to understand that we are prevented from doing speed & modes available to be done license free! Take a good look around or type in a frequency range into Google just to see what comes up. It won't be ham radio related, it will likely be Part 15 devices!
Say I wanted a DSL shot over RF, I can't do it with my ham license but I can do it under Part 15. So much for the "leading edge" argument! We are dragging anchor but most don't seem to notice the pace has long passed us by!
We are no longer the only ones with antennas, mobile radios are not rare. Flip phones, PDA's & 2-way pagers outstrip the state of currently available amateur equipment for years now. A 1200 baud TNC in a radio is about as "high-tech" as it goes & the 2 makers of them (Alinco & Kenwood) are hanging by a thread in the amateur market!
You can also add the FRS/GMRS/MURS fever that has eclipsed the Technician class licensees by quickly populating those frequencies. This is true even out here in rural America. Activity is year round, not just during hunting season or warm weather. In fact during this winter's ice storm & power outage, I heard much more activity on FRS than all of ham radio (VHF/UHF)combined. Granted you can choose to do more with Amateur Radio but 90% of it is talking. How much more is there? License Free & Part 15 devices satisfy the need to simply communicate.
Sorry all who think the world revolves around ham radio. It clearly doesn't anymore. I try to be realistic in my views based on my 30 years in radio. I follow commercial wireless closely & work in the business, it is easy for me to say they clearly have us beat! Although I have a great stake in ham radio, I really have found the OF's have depressed the "hobby" so far, little can save it from its' own demise.
Pushing this supposed "public service" with voice nets, NTS messages & endless self praise will only seal this fate...
Phil has always been right about this & he remains right on target today!
When will the clueless figure out reality?
2-2!
Roach Radio
Regardless of our allocation status on 902-928, there isn't any development of the band. Lack of a primary allocation should never have stopped the manufacturing of radios for the band either! Even conversion of commercial equipment has not evolved to what I would have expected. Now I have simply lowered my expectations of the service & its' participants. Considering the comments here, on QRZ, eHam & newgroups, I am actually embarassed to be lumped in with these shortsighted twits!
What I find amazing is the fact all these backpatters fail to understand that we are prevented from doing speed & modes available to be done license free! Take a good look around or type in a frequency range into Google just to see what comes up. It won't be ham radio related, it will likely be Part 15 devices!
Say I wanted a DSL shot over RF, I can't do it with my ham license but I can do it under Part 15. So much for the "leading edge" argument! We are dragging anchor but most don't seem to notice the pace has long passed us by!
We are no longer the only ones with antennas, mobile radios are not rare. Flip phones, PDA's & 2-way pagers outstrip the state of currently available amateur equipment for years now. A 1200 baud TNC in a radio is about as "high-tech" as it goes & the 2 makers of them (Alinco & Kenwood) are hanging by a thread in the amateur market!
You can also add the FRS/GMRS/MURS fever that has eclipsed the Technician class licensees by quickly populating those frequencies. This is true even out here in rural America. Activity is year round, not just during hunting season or warm weather. In fact during this winter's ice storm & power outage, I heard much more activity on FRS than all of ham radio (VHF/UHF)combined. Granted you can choose to do more with Amateur Radio but 90% of it is talking. How much more is there? License Free & Part 15 devices satisfy the need to simply communicate.
Sorry all who think the world revolves around ham radio. It clearly doesn't anymore. I try to be realistic in my views based on my 30 years in radio. I follow commercial wireless closely & work in the business, it is easy for me to say they clearly have us beat! Although I have a great stake in ham radio, I really have found the OF's have depressed the "hobby" so far, little can save it from its' own demise.
Pushing this supposed "public service" with voice nets, NTS messages & endless self praise will only seal this fate...
Phil has always been right about this & he remains right on target today!
When will the clueless figure out reality?
2-2!
Roach Radio
