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Subject: Re: low power license free packet?
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Date: 19 Mar 88 21:01:02 GMT
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In article <620@datapg.DataPg.MN.ORG> sewilco@datapg.DataPg.MN.ORG (Scot E. Wilcoxon) writes:
>In article <927@unccvax.UUCP> dya@unccvax.UUCP (Edison Carter) writes:
>...
>>      2) Allow the use of Channel 38, which is reserved for radio
>>astronomy, for low power packet, except within 100 miles of established
>>radio listening posts.
>...
>
>100 miles does not seem sufficient to ensure there will be no
>interference with a transmitter a million times further away.
>-- 
>Scot E. Wilcoxon   sewilco@DataPg.MN.ORG   {amdahl|hpda}!bungia!datapg!sewilco

Here here!  I must agree with Scot.  Besides, just imagine all of the 
SETI alarms that would go off if propagation on UHF suddenly got better.
Let the radio astronomers have clear listening.  The bands allocated for
radio astronomy are small enough as it is.


73

Ollie - N6LTJ


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