On 03/11/2013 04:30 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
We are not obligated to explain it to each individual, but nor can we keep the definition of our jargon secret.A right to monitor doesn't imply a right to understand, unless you think you have an obligation to explain your jargon to any neophyte who comes asking. :)
Thanks very much for this, I'll make sure to include it in my rationale. Self-regulation and community spectrum management don't work if _amateurs_ can't decode a communication.For many good reasons commercial usage of the amateur bands is prohibited and that prohibition can not be effective, especially considering how enforcement works, if communications are encrypted.
We can't continue to justify the Amateur service mainly through its potential for emergency communications, simply because it is becoming technologically easier for our served organizations to take care of themselves. At least if they put the money and time into that task. Then again, I'm not holding my breath waiting for them /all/ to acquire this degree of competence.The loss of relevance of the amateur service comes in part from a mismatch between how people use communications technology today —as an increasingly personal and intimate part of their lives— and the rules and norms of amateur radio.
IMO our long term justifications are innovation and education, not emergency communications.
That's constructing an application to justify keeping frequencies that we would not otherwise need. I think that you need authentic Amateur use to justify keeping the spectrum. Third-party access would be better done in Part 15 or Part 90 than in the Amateur service.for SHF+ the ham spectrum is almost universally underutilized and between wide spectrum and spacial reuse (due to the possibility of highly directional P2P signals) there is technically a lot of potential to do things like have communities further the public interest by building backbone infrastructure for third party access to the Internet, coordinated by and in the spirit of amateur communications
Thanks
Bruce
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