Reading back over these posts, I think there is some confusion between normal amateur operations and emergency operations. Under the ITU convention emergencies have special rules applied to them. Bear in mind that ITU conventions overule all national laws for those countries that are signatories to the ITU convention.
73 Barry VK2AAB Bruce Perens wrote: > > On 03/11/2013 04:30 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: >> 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. :) > We are not obligated to explain it to each individual, but nor can we > keep the definition of our jargon secret. >> 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. > 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. >> 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. > 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. > > IMO our long term justifications are innovation and education, not > emergency communications. >> 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 > 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. > >    Thanks > >    Bruce > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester > Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the > endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to > tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Freetel-codec2 mailing list > Freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freetel-codec2 mailing list Freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2
