2 meter Ham Band Safe for Now

Articles at the ARRL site as well as at Save 2 Meter.

The idea was to take a chunk of the single most heavily used amateur radio band and reallocate it to air mobile communications, possibly for unmanned aircraft.  But just in France, because you know, radio waves respect national borders so well.  At least it was for nothing critical or dangerous, only aircraft operations.

The idiocy of Thales corporation even proposing this as well as France playing along is stunning.  Good to see reason, existing law, and well, general civilized behavior triumph for once.  Because it they hadn't, radio propagation physics surely would have.