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there is a legal difference between a PRIMARY and a SECONDARY licensee.

Amateurs did lose part of the 10 meter band in the late 1940's and as a result, the FCC ALLOWED them to operate on 27 MHz as a secondary user, provided there was no interference with Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) devices.

those freqs were never allocated as Amateur bands , so Amateurs could never "lose" what they never "owned". Period.

the users that lost 27 MHz were commercial users. mainly the Diathermy industry.

in fact, even after the class "D" permit was invented, certain frequencies in the 26.96 to 27.23 MC range you stated continued to be used for commercial operation.

[QUOTE="Road Squawker, post: 546709, member: 17089"] there is a legal difference between a PRIMARY and a SECONDARY licensee. Amateurs did lose part of the 10 meter band in the late 1940's and as a result, the FCC ALLOWED them to operate on 27 MHz as a secondary user, provided there was no interference with Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) devices. those freqs were never allocated as Amateur bands , so Amateurs could never "lose" what they never "owned". Period. the users that lost 27 MHz were commercial users. mainly the Diathermy industry. in fact, even after the class "D" permit was invented, certain frequencies in the 26.96 to 27.23 MC range you stated continued to be used for commercial operation. [/QUOTE]

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