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From: majka@ubc-vision.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: A Canadian Unix Network?
Message-ID: <751@ubc-vision.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 17:54:29 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 17 17:54:29 1987
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Reply-To: majka@ubc-vision.UUCP (Marc Majka)
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Organization: UBC Computational Vision Lab, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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T. Pryjma writes:
> How do you expect amateurs to continue doing good work if you keep
> swiping their bands?

Richard Loken writes:
>Actually, I being an amateur wanted to finger the CB bands (leer, wink, wink)

The 11 meter General Radio Service band (GRS in Canada, CB in the USA) was
set aside for the great unwashed for a good reason.  Propagation can be awful.
It seems to get the very worst of disruptions and noise due to solar activity.
I don't think that you would want it for packet radio.

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Marc Majka  -  VE7FIZ