Just as an aside on the interesting point about the founders of amateur radio. As far as I know, initially, ALL were radio amateurs, including Marconi. Initially, ALL frequencies above 3MHz belonged to radio amateurs, without any license whatsoever. One can draw an analogy with driving vehicles. At first there were NO licenses and no rules. But later, the GOVERNMENT stepped in when it was found that Short Waves were NOT useless as had been thought.
They had been considered pretty useless as skip zone wasn't understood, it was not known that there was an ionosphere reflecting HF signals! So in tests, after 30 miles or so the signal disappeared and thus above 3MHz was considered useless. Then when hams in Europe and America started making contact, still largely unregulated, aha, then these air waves had value, and amateurs were now RESTRICTED to certain bands: 160, 80, 40, 20, 10 and perhaps also 15. AND those bands were wider than now! I think 20m was 14 to 14.5 or certainly 14.4 MHz.
So it may have not been amateurs but governments who conceded these bands, or decided upon them? Perhaps with or without amateur input?
A very important things that has always NEEDED TO BE DONE and now more than ever and yet NO IARU SOCIETY ANYWHERE is doing it: as acknowledgement of the role of amateur radio and radio amateurs in all communications development from the outset, the ORIGINAL amateur radio bands (even if smaller as we have now) at 160, 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters should be given IN PERPETUITY to the amateur radio service.
Only this will protect encroachment upon it by the money-men and their regime poodles (governamints).
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