[CW] ARRL Request to Contact Your US Senators Supporting S 1534 - the Amateur Radio Parity Act

[James Hull]

Don:

You under-sold N3JT’s qualifications.  From the description at the bottom of the first article is this:

“Jim Talens, N3JT, is a telecom attorney who spent 22 years at the FCC, 5 years at a large law firm in DC and still does some consulting. He is an engineer, MBA and attorney. Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the opinions of CWops."

That tells me a lot more than he is “just a lawyer.”  He is an experienced lawyer in this particular subject AND he has a vested interest in the hobby.  The second article is also by a lawyer-radio operator but I know nothing more than that.

Me?  I don’t have squat with regards to legal qualifications for an opinion on this subject, one way or the other.  At best I am left with relying upon people that I trust and people that I think I can trust.  N3JT is the latter based upon his excellent qualifications.  My buddy Bob, who provided to me the initial announcement, is the former because I know him personally.

Here is what now strikes me as annoying:  The official ARRL website (http://www.arrl.org <http://www.arrl.org/>) is, in fact, calling for support to this legislation.  Conversely, guys like N3JT and K1VR each present great arguments otherwise.  I am inclined to trust N3JT and K1VR because of their qualifications.  If I do that, though, then I have to ask myself this:  Why has the ARRL compromised and left the amateur radio community with the short end of the stick?  Why would they do that?  I am annoyed that I am now questioning the interests of an otherwise revered organization.

The result?  In the confusion as to who is right, I (and I suppose many others) have decided to neither support or oppose the legislation.  In so doing, I (again, and many others) will deny the ARRL’s request for its grassroots support.  Thus, I (and many others) have deliberately decided to stymie the same organization that otherwise champions my hobby.  That makes me a hypocrite, right?

I hope that smarter, more learned people than me make the right decision in this case.


James Hull
KK4EOU
SKCC# 14457



> On Aug 15, 2017, at 3:53 PM, Donald Chester <k4kyv at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> Some hams, including some who happen to be in the legal profession, have serious misgivings about the currently proposed (watered-down) legislation in its present form. In fact it could be counter-productive and worsen our situation, leading to a classic case of   "government over-reach", in this case getting federal regulators (the FCC) involved in the enforcement of "neighborhood associations" rules. This whole thing should be revised, or thrown out completely and re-written, along the lines of the pre-watered down version that paralleled PRB-1.
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> This  link is to a pdf newsletter.  Scroll down near the end to the "guest editorial" by N3JT.  He is a lawyer and thinks the current bill is a bad idea.
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> http://www.cwops.org/newsletter/2017/06scopy17jun.pdf <http://www.cwops.org/newsletter/2017/06scopy17jun.pdf>
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> Here is a link to a pdf of another opinion on the subject.
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> http://www.kkn.net/~n6tv/Just_Say_No_to_S.1534_v4.pdf <http://www.kkn.net/~n6tv/Just_Say_No_to_S.1534_v4.pdf>
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> Don k4kyv
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