This is a snip from
recent e-mail conversation (today) with Dr. David Kazdan AD8Y
relating to the WWV/WWVH issues:
73,
Dale WA8EFK
Dale:
Thanks for
your efforts.
I will attach the
short telephone script that we developed, but it's not primarily about
amateur radio.
From my amateur radio
perspective, and I believe I speak for others of the Collegiate
Amateur Radio Initiative, WWV/H's significance lies in all of
Section 97's statements of purpose for the amateur service. To
fulfill our federal mission, we need easily and inexpensively
available, accurate time and frequency information; we need the
content that WWV/H broadcasts such as GPS constellation
integrity and space weather information, and we need it
independent of infrastructure such as the internet or mobile
telephones; and we need the scientific and technical resources
of well-engineered shortwave radio standards broadcasting to
provide research possibilities, education, and training to
interested individuals. WWV/H also fulfill the international
goodwill and cooperation mandate of amateur radio, but without
direct amateur radio content--their transmissions on
internationally assigned frequencies are outside of amateur
purview.
In some sense,
continuation of WWV/H is similar to the need for antenna
accommodations. The amateur radio service cannot exist without
certain physical facilities and the service is mandated in Code
of Federal Regulations. The facilities therefore must be made
possible.
Others on the
distribution list, please feel free to add to this.
Dale, thank you
again. We very much appreciate it.
73,
David,
AD8Y
David,
This is now under discussion. The key elements relate to the
impact upon Amateur Radio from ARRL's perspective. Before
extending member resources and lobbying efforts, we must develop
an impact statement as to how the discontinuing of WWV/WWVH
transmissions negatively affects us as hams. Any thoughts would
be appreciated.
73,
Dale WA8EFK