Hello W3UR, Thursday, March 16, 2006, 1:24:56 PM, you wrote:
BMW> First off Simon is one of these Freebanders (CBers). I've never been active on cb, I became amateur radio operator after several years as a broadcasting listener, I've never owned a cb radio nor transmitted on any free band. After saying that, I don't care if Simon or anyone else is a freebander, as long as he/they don't interfere with ham radio operations inside the ham bands. BMW> Simon is ticked off at me from the TX0AT and TI9M DXpeditions BMW> when I stood up and alerted people of these activities. [....] BMW> Government officials won?t care if they are hams or freebanders BMW> once they catch them illegally going on some of these islands. BMW> So the next time someone who is a licensed Amateur Radio operator BMW> wants to go to one of these islands they may be told no because BMW> of past illegal Freeband activities. If someone goes on a dxpedition and works the ham bands as well as the cb, after getting the proper ham radio license, he might go unnoticed and never get caught by the authorities for being a freebander. But what if someone, like you, sends out the alert to the local officials? The authorities could raid the station, see the transceivers used on ham bands as well as on freeband, link the two radio activities and THEN ban all the future legit ham radio dxpeditions. BMW> I promote both Amateur Radio and DXing. Smart way to do that, Bernie. <grin> ---------------------------- Famous Sport Quotes: "I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player." John Kruk ---------------------------- Steve mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, [email protected] This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org
