[AMRadio] Speak now or for ever hold your peace.

[russ dworakowski]

Thats 2 in a row  for  you  and I  Don.  I  do  not see  why  contesters  
want  subbands.  If  you  put the  power in the  hands  of  politicians  
[FCC]  they  will do  what  they  want with it  and  not  what  may  really  
be needed.  But   I  do not  want to  attack  Reilly,
as I   think  he is a  better approach than  has  ever  been  used ever, at 
least  in  my  short  ham  career.  [1976]  My  point is  we  should  be  
able to "police ourselves".  Usually   the gov't  puts  people  in charge  
that  don't  have a clue.  Russ


>From: "Donald Chester" <k4kyv at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: amradio at mailman.qth.net
>To: amradio at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [AMRadio] Speak now or for ever hold your peace.
>Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 21:47:00
>
>
>Checking the FCC's Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS), I see that the
>contesters have overwhelmingly "stuffed the ballot box" in favor of
>RM-10352, the petition to establish FCC-mandated emission subbands on 160
>metres. Of over 350 comments, only a half dozen or so have expressed
>opposition. Most of the rest have rubber-stamped this bogus petition.
>
>Time is running out. If you don't think subbands on 160 would be a good
>idea, GET YOUR COMMENTS OUT TODAY! There are only 3 days left. Is there
>really enough CW operation on 160 to justify 43 khz of exclusive band? In
>over 20 years of using this band since LORAN-A was taken off, I have heard
>phone stations on the low end maybe 2 or 3 times, except during CONTESTS.
>
>What I am seeing here is a proposed solution for a nonexistent problem... 
>Or
>is the "problem" CONTESTS, not the mixing of modes? The contest committees
>need to be strongly encouraged to declare certain parts of the bands
>off-limits to contesting so non-contesters can operate ham radio on contest
>weekends too.
>
>Let the FCC know that the pro-subband people are not unanimous amongst 160M
>operators. Go to the following site: FCC Comments Page,
>http://www.fcc.gov/e-file/ecfs.html.
>
>Don, K4KYV
>
>
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