On 2/26/2015 11:12 PM, Cliff Frescura wrote: > My thinking changed when UPS successfully lobbied the FCC in 1989 to > reallocate part of 220MHz from Amateur to Commercial service. > > UPS argued that the reallocation was in the "public interest" and they would > put the spectrum to good use. > > After a ruling in their favor, UPS never commercially deployed and the > spectrum was unused for quite some time.
Urban legend. "I wuz there." It wasn't UPS - the key player in all that was a "revolving door" former FCC Bureau chief who was a principal in a now-defunct manufacturer trying to deploy equipment using their unstable modulation scheme (ACSB == Amplitude-Compandered-Sideband), a scheme that the major land-mobile equipment manufacturers rejected as too unstable for deployment. UPS was only the patsy waiting in the wings patiently for workable equipment, and finally gave up and went with a Motorola system in the then-newly-available 800 MHz band. The amateur community didn't have "clean hands" because we failed to use that part of the spectrum to any great extent, probably because of a lack of reasonably-priced equipment at the time. Let that be a lesson for us in the future. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 >From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
