So, that's what the guy did the other night to get himself run over? Brian Team A.I. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Team Tierra Buena" To: Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 10:06 PM Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] Yahoo! News Story - Bush Prepares for PossibleGPSShutdown > Ken, thanks for posting that. > >> I don't see citizens band/HAM radios being shutdown in the form of >> outlawing them. > > The Amateur Radio frequencies were turned over to military operations > for about 4 years during World War II, so there is certainly precedent > for it. If there's any threat to Amateur use of those frequencies, it > isn't currently significant enough to worry the American Radio Relay > League, the largest Amateur Radio organization in the US. I have yet to > see as much as a sentence on the subject in any of their print or online > publications that I read. They're much more concerned about broadband > over power line (BPL) interference in places like Cottonwood > (http://www.arrl.org). > > Trying to take back Citizens Band frequencies would be akin to walking > out in the middle of I-10, holding up your hand, and expecting the > traffic to stop. It might, but you won't live long enough to see it > happen. > > Steve > Team Tierra Buena > > ____________________________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com > To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > http://www.azgeocaching.com >