Colin, while that may be true of Canada and hams having a say in things, Canada
is only one of about 26 countries who have made this change. I'd suggest that
you check in to how this change was made in other countries and you will find
that in most cases it was without or with only minimal feedback from hams. I
did initially say that there were exceptions to every rule. I have not
specifically picked on Canadians in any of my posts and do not intend to but I
have seen some messages to you directed specifically at Canadians. I also
realize that you will benefit from the new changes as it will give you hf access
but that does not change the fact that I have made a number of gene3ral
statements to which you have responded specifically as a Canadian. What you
have said may be true specifically in the Canadian situation it is unfortunately
not true in any cases. Also, so far as it goes, if you really want to get down
to brass tacks. statistically speaking the Canadian sampling methodology of hams
did not yield a valid population sample. Whether or not that was avoidable is a
different discussion perhaps better taken off list but a simple orthogonal
rotation of the Canadian population matrix will more than fully demonstrate that
fact to you if you canre to take the trouble to do the matrix construction.
Tom
Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html