[amsat-bb] Re: This Is a HOBBY people

[i8cvs]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andre" <sats at pe1rdw.demon.nl>
To: <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 2:25 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: This Is a HOBBY people


> Op 24-10-2011 13:05, i8cvs schreef:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kevin Deane"<summit496 at live.com>
> > To:<amsat-bb at amsat.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 10:33 PM
> > Subject: [amsat-bb] This Is a HOBBY people
> >> As much as I enjoy the banter, animosity and sometimes really brilliant
> >> posts, I want to remind everyone that this is  a HOBBY!
> >>
> >> Amateur Radio.
> >>
> >> Shut up and have fun, some of you take this WAY TO SERIOUSLY.
> >>
> >> Kevin
> >> KF7MYK

> > Hi Kevin, KF7MYK
> >
> > The official Definitios given by IARU ( the International Amateur Radio
> > Union) for the Amateur Service and the Amateur-Satellite Service are the
> > following :
> >
> > ARTICLE Nr1
> >
> > 3.34  Amateur Service:
> >            A radiocommunication service for the purpose of self-training
,
> >            intercommunication and technical investigations carried out
by
> >            amateurs, that is,by duly authorized persons interested in
radio
> >            technique solely with a personal aim and without pecuniary
> >            interest.
> >
> > 3.35 Amateur Satellite Service:
> >           A radiocommunication service using space stations on earth
> >           satellites for the same purposes as those of the amateur
service.
> >
> > As you can realize the Amateur Service and the Amateur Satellite
> > Service are not defined as an "HOBBY" but  as a "SERVICE" for
> > self-training , intercommunication and technical investigations
> > activity and this is why we receive the permission to use the radio
> > frequency spectrum at no cost because the technical knowledge
> > that one of us  get with the Amateur Service is a profit at zero cost
> > for the Community.
> >
> > 73" de
> >
> > i8CVS Domenico
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> The problem with these definitions is that the ITU defines all radio
> users as services, even CB falls under land mobile services.
> Guess CB is not a hobby too.
>
> 73 Andre PE1RDW

Hi Andre, PE1RDW

I don't have at hand the ITU definitions for "land mobile services" but
this services are only for intercommunication and not for the purposes
of self-training ,and technical investigations in radio technique as is
the Amateur Service and the Amateur Satellite Service.

73" de

i8CVS Domenico