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Author: Brian Casteel
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New-Topics: RE: [Az-Geocaching] Yahoo! News Story - Bush Prepares forPossibleGPSShutdown
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Yahoo! News Story - Bush Prepares for PossibleGPSShutdown
<gross humor moment>
So, that's what the guy did the other night to get himself run over?
</gross humor moment>


Brian
Team A.I.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Team Tierra Buena" <>
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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
>
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