Subj : Da Di Dit  Dit - Rulz
To   : STAN PHILLIPS
From : Roy Witt
Date : Fri Aug 18 2000 10:18 am

Hello STAN.

13 Aug 00 17:51, you wrote to me:


 RW>  SP>> No, it is an american problem.  There are organizaions that
 RW>  SP>> want to use the 430-450 meg ham bands for use with low orbit
 RW>  SP>> satelites. (Data transmission, phone etc).
 RW>>
 RW>> That's news to me and I'm a UHF freak...About two years ago, I sold
 RW>> one of my 450MHz repeaters (still have one in storage) to someone
 RW>> who had a keener interest, but I still use UHF and despise the VHF
 RW>> repeaters around here.

 SP> Do a search under 'LEO'.  The commercial interests have been looking
 SP> at the success of the ham satelites

None of those companies are using Amateur frequencies. They're using VHF
frequencies above and below our HAM 2mtr frequencies or they're using the
lowend of 400MHz and above the UHF HAM frequencies at 455MHz, which are
part of the business band.  Didn't find anything which would infer that
they'd like to take over either VHF or UHF HAM bands.  BTW, our 420-450Mhz
UHF HAM band is on a shared basis with the US military (usually radar), so
it wouldn't surprise me if the FCC allowed those LEOs to share it too.


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