[amsat-bb] Re: ANSAT-NA VS MILITARY cooperation

[Tony Langdon]

At 11:06 PM 4/24/2007, Roger Kolakowski wrote:


>You have your facts backwards...the world's military is currently assisting
>Amateur Radio, we are not providing them with anything they don't have
>already.

In fact, the only reason we have some of our bands is because we 
share them with the military, and they aren't going to give them up 
without a fight (pardon the expression ;) ).  The military need them 
for defence purposes, and it's fortuitous that their needs and ours 
are compatible and allow for us to occupy the bands when and where 
they are not needed for defence purposes at a particular time.  How 
long would the 70cm allocation last without military interests 
reserving the band?

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