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If you guys get the time you really should read through the story about Art Collins.
Arthur A. Collins
First the U.S. Government gave the High Frequency bands to the hams because the government thought they were worthless for communication. In doing so, they relied upon propaganda from private industry, which couldn't figure out how to make an oscillator that would operate above 2.5 Mhz. at prices consumers would be willing to pay, so they didn't want those frequencies at the time. But within about 2 years after the government gave them "200 meters and down" (the HF spectrum), the hams had built cheap oscillators that would operate up to 28 Mhz. Then private industry wanted the HF bands back, and pressured the government to steal them back from the hams, which essentially it did (notice the repeating pattern of betrayal here?), by restricting the hams to certain narrow segments of the HF bands and letting commercial stations operate everywhere else on HF.
Art Collins discovered that you could "work skip" on HF. Therefore he was the only station who could communicate with the MacMillan Arctic expedition in 1925. The government couldn't even contact its own arctic expedition because they still believed the industry propaganda that HF was useless. The government "experts" didn't even acknowledge that "skip" existed. Art was only able to do this because his father, who was a successful farmer, bought him one of the newfangled transmitting triodes that could operate at 14 Mhz. That tube cost $300 in 1924, which would be about $4,600 today.
So Del, obviously everything Art Collins did is totally invalid because it's strictly due to white privilege!
