[Boatanchors] White House Petition Regarding the Proposed Shutdown of NIST's WWV, WWVB, and WWVH Transmitters.

[Robert Downs]

I have one question about the mechanics of signing this (or any) petition.  Text on the screen said that if you signed the petition, to validate that you were the actual signer, an email would be sent to the email address that you gave.  And that the email would contain a link to click to validate.

I signed, and within a few seconds had an email.  In it was a place to click, which I did.  Nothing appeared to happen.  Should there have been some response, maybe a note saying something like "Validated". Or maybe "thank you for signing"?  When I hover the mouse pointer over the clickable area, I see what could be a valid url, followed by about four screen inches of ASCII characters.

Robert Downs
-------- Original message --------
From: Randy Berry <randyn3lrx at gmail.com> 
Date: 08/18/2018  5:01 AM  (GMT-08:00) 
To: Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com> 
Cc: Boat Anchors List <Boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>, Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service <amradio at mailman.qth.net> 
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] [AMRadio] White House Petition Regarding the
  Proposed Shutdown of NIST's WWV, WWVB, and WWVH Transmitters. 

I've just been informed there is another petition filed on the same
White House petition site.

Sorry about that, the site isn't designed all that well for displaying
current and open petitions or a search option or anything useful. (our
tax dollars at work) It shows mostly closed petitions first based on
popularity not status. Kinda dumb. So I missed it when I first looked.

Here's the link to the first petition which presently has more
signatures and may have a better chance at going through if the White
House site actually does pay attention to what the people want.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/maintain-funding-nist-stations-wwv-wwvh

Let's hope somebody in our govt. pays attention to what people find important.

tnx es 73 de Randy, N3LRX/8

On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 6:43 AM, Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I filled out the name and address form on that petition and clicked
> the green sign button but nothing happened.
> Does it work for others?
> Rob
> K5UJ
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 2:47 AM Randy Berry <randyn3lrx at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The petition is located here:
>>
>> https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/proposed-shutdown-nists-wwv-and-wwvh-radio-stations
>>qsl.net/donate.html