Yes, it IS a hobby. The emergency proviso has been an excellent excuse for us to continue to keep the bands, and indeed expand them from time to time. but the majority of hams never are involved one iota in emergency communications. The original "hams" were strictly "playing" with the CW mode and learning how to get a signal across town. They gave themselves their own callsigns and it was only later AFTER they had proven the use of radio that the government got involved, and even later when the governments started assigning bands of frequencies to us, as well as other users. Everything is a personal choice, and when that goes, so do I. The amateurs themselves, I understand, are the ones that wrote the first rules and regulations and the ARRL adopted much of the wording concerning the advancement of technical and operational aspects of radio. The government (FCC- now) just glommed on to them. ----- Original Message ----- From: "expeditionradio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <digitalradio@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 9:15 PM Subject: [digitalradio] Improving the Service/Hobby/Art (x: Army MARS Implementing Winlink 2000)
> Flavio Padovani wrote > Read VERY CAREFULLY and do not misinterpret the regulations. > Amateur radio is a hobby. > For me, when this becomes and emergency service, that will > be the end. > KP4AWX Flavio Padovani Sorry to break the news to you, Flavio. I hope you will reconsider ending it all over such a trivial issue... In USA, we hams operate in the Amateur Radio Service under FCC rules. The ARS rules are silent on the issue of "hobby", but the ARS rules do include emergency operation in many paragraphs. Some might even go so far as to say that the "ham radio hobby" is a lifestyle. The fact that many hams participate in the ARS as a hobby is a personal choice... the "hobby" is only a choice people might make for themselves. But your perceived right to pursue your "hobby" is not the official reason for the ARS to exist in USA. Some very interesting parts of the rules are aspects of what the FCC calls "the radio art", and it is pertinent for enthusiasts in digital communications: " �97.1 (c) Encouragement and improvement of the amateur service through rules which provide for advancing skills in both the communications and technical phases of the art." Bonnie KQ6XA Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.2/274 - Release Date: 3/3/2006 Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
