From: "Ed Sieb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [AMRadio] Illegal 27 MHz Linear Amplifiers
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 09:32:23 -0400
...If the Canadian government (pttooooie!) could care less about
terrorists here, you can imagine where illegal CB'ers rank.
I am curious why you say that. One would think the Canadian gov't would
have the same concern about terrorism as the US. I don't see why the
US-Canadian border should now be policed any heavier than it ever was
before, if both countries were equally aware of the problem and cooperated
with a determination to realistically and effectively deal with the problem.
My opinion has been that this is just an excuse to stop and interrogate more
people, when otherwise it wouldn't happen to travellers between let us say
Tennessee and Kentucky or Quebec and Ontario.
From what you say, do you think the US is justified in fortifying border
controls?
I talked to a Canadian ham a couple of weeks ago, and his opinion was that
the Canadian gov't has all but abandoned any concern about ham radio much
like the FCC has all but given up on CB in the US. He told me that the ham
licence was issued for lifetime now, with no expiration and that the annual
renewal fee has been cancelled.
I can see how that could be a double edged sword. There wouldn't be the
never-ending concern about the micky mouse gov't micromanagement of ham
radio like the bandwidth proposal and subband debate going on in the US, but
on the other hand, we don't want ham radio to become so deregulated that it
becomes little more than a "respectable" version of CB.
Don K4KYV
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