EMERGENCY ??? AMATEUR RADIO NEEDS YOUR HELP NOW!

[Phil]

Hi Bill

> I received a QSL card from someone who said they worked my station during
> the last VA QSO Party.  Funny, I was not on the air that day so I guess we
> need to find the culprit who was using my call and charcoal broil him.
> Maybe I should write a letter to the FCC and complain.

>> Oh, cut the guy some slack, Bill. My hearing and memory ain't as good as they yoosta be, and at 53 I'm a youngster in amateur radio circles. The only question is, who is waiting for the QSL card you received? N4TF?
> 
> I believe threats to our amateur bands come from the folks who would love to
> take over the amateur frequencies for commercial purposes.

>> Now we're singing the same song. The previous UK gumment spent time and money making plans to stop UK transmissions on the medium wave AM band so they could sell it, before realizing that nobody wanted less than 1 MHz of noisy AM real estate which is full of European broadcasts after dark. But SW would be a bounty, not that it is in anyone's ownership to sell.

Phil M1GWZ