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... Thanks for sharing this. It is a well-written valuable document, which came at a very good time, except someone at the Federal Communications Commission
The following are excerpts from "Commercialization of Amateur Radio: The Rules, The Risks, The Issues" published 09/2009 that I mentioned in an earlier post.
I must have missed something in these posts. Hadn't heard anything about anyone using ham freqs if they weren't hams. What gives?? Dave [Non-text portions of
if they're not hams, they can't use the freqs. period I'm confused. "Nothing says anyone "must" use hams if they don't want to." I agree. But if they're using