[BC] Amatuer radio spectrum

[Ron Youvan]

> Ultimately everybody will be using some kind of spread-
> spectrum communications methodology because it is the only 
> technology that addresses all the communications issues 
> necessary for reliability. Even moving television to UHF 
> for this new high-definition service was just a step in 
> the ultimate demise of TV allocations as we know them.

   I have spoken with many that think you can lump a ton of
transmitters on the same frequency without interference if
you use "spread-spectrum communications methodology" but
collisions will occur, it is not a panacea.

> Ultimately all communications that use radio frequency energy
> will be using some kind of digital encoded packets that are
> spewed out across a broad spectrum. There will be certain
> intermediate steps along the way. Remember that nothing is
> permanent.

   So all old HAM radios shall be junked for the massive
improvement in my ability to talk with my radio friends
within 25 miles of the repeaters, why again?

> The ARRL and other amateur radio advocates need to step up to
> the plate and address this new technology. Certainly there is
> spectrum space available for the amateurs, but not in the form
> of a hard carrier on 51.5 MHz! That is obsolete and, ultimately
> will be found "harmful to the public interest." Since the engineers
> who are designing the new high-speed spread-spectrum stuff are in
> many cases, amateur radio operators, they need to address these
> issues just as their forbearers did when radio telegraphy gave
> way to radio telephone.

   When did "radio telegraphy gave way to radio telephone"?
I still love and use "CW" and it's use is growing.
You can talk around the world with "a hard carrier on 51.5 MHz" with
10 Watts.  What are you trying to do?

> If, and I hope this is not the case, amateur radio has degenerated
> from its innovative past, to a special communications facility
> for the privileged few, then they don't deserve any special
> consideration as their allocations are be wiped out. The innovators
> need to step up and do their thing.

   A "special communications facility for the privileged few" that bothered
to study and take a test, rich and poor alike, old and young, hes and shes.

   Someone has been out of HAM radio too long, it seem to those still in it,
it is working just fine including Dstar, several types of packet radio and the
conventional modulation schemes.  (many forms of digital modulation are common)
   I fail to see any problem.
-- 
    Ron  KA4INM - around here the TAXing authorities have become quite skilled at taking
                  every opportunity to TAX and it shows.  (while giving very poor service)