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Old 14th Jun 2019, 11:46 am   #8
MrBungle
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Default Re: Save our 2 Metre Band.

Interesting and stupid.

I just pinged a friend of mine who is a commercial pilot and he thinks it is stupid as well. He has a perspective of "don't touch anything that isn't broken" and it's not. In fact he's very much against further technology "improvements" citing that the additional complexity leads to non determinism which is a sensible conclusion IMHO as he cited Boeing's recent history and the state of the F35 project.

As the 2m band is used for emergency communications regularly, there is established repeater infrastructure across Europe and significant investment in hardware it would be pretty difficult to kick everyone off.

As for it being used less it's pretty busy around here in SW London as well with local nets, APRS, repeaters, the lot. Rarely do I go for an amble with the HT and can't hear something on band. So much so I'm putting up a slim jim this weekend.
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