[DCboatanchors] Mission Creep - Reject RM-11306

[Brian Carling]

EXCELLENT! Thank you WA3VJB for forwarding this.

Exposing this background to the "ARRL RM-11306 Debacle"
is the worst nightmare of the brass at ARRL who are 
steering this CON-AIR flight!

On 20 Jan 2006 at 5:44, VJB wrote:

> There are signs the Back Room Boys in Newington have
> tried a back-door approach to open ham radio to
> unrestricted email from the internet, under the guise
> of being fashionably digital.
> 
> This Q & A is part of a new thread opposing the
> League's Petition, showing how the concerns are not
> limited to unjustified penalties against AM.
> 
> Submitted for your consideration in preparing your
> official opposition Comment.
> 
> (Please file your thoughts to the FCC site or via
> StopRM11306 at amfone.net)
> 
> 
> -----------
> 
> 
> Matthew,
> 
> The basis of the ARRL petition is the ARRL Ad Hoc
> HFDigital committee recommendation. This  committee
> was composed of the two Winlink top operatives, one of
> which was given the chairman job, two TAPR board
> members, the inventor of PSK31, and myself, developer
> of the most popular PSK31 program.
> 
> The committee was chartered, in proper fashion, ONLY
> to recommend the introduction of new digital modes,
> and NOT to recommend any bandplan (which was to be the
> subject of another Minute).
> 
> However, on the third day of the committee meetings,
> the chairman tabled a bandplan and ordered all other
> members do the same (over my objection). It is obvious
> from comparing Part 97.221 in the ARRL petition with
> that currently in the FCC regulations that the
> intention of the recommendation was to open the HF
> bands for Winlink Email robots, and not primarily to
> solve any major problems with the current mode-based
> system, even though permanently accomodating new
> digital modes is slowed down by first requiring them
> to be shown not to be harmful by the FCC STA process.
> 
> The resulting committee recommendation was a bandplan
> heavily favoring Winlink 2000 (which represents less
> than one percent of the FCC-licensed hams and less
> than one third percent of hams worldwide), and was
> formulated by that special interest group without any
> representation of mode users other than digital. In
> exchange, the ARRL Board adopted the Winlink 2000
> system as part of the ARRL traffic system.
> 
> I don't know what "other peoples' opinions" you are
> looking for, but the petition itself belies the ARRL
> motives behind the petition, regardless of the spin
> you read from Newington.
> 
> If you have not seen it, here is one person's view of
> how the petition came to pass (which ARRL conveniently
> neglected to make public, even though it was legally
> part and parcel of the committee output):
> 
> Dissenting Recommendation of the ARRL Ad Hoc HFDigital
> Committee
> http://www.zerobeat.net/bandplan-dissent.html
> 
> Read this carefully and then look for all the subtle
> elements of the ARRL petition that serve to divulge
> the true agenda behind the petition, such as the
> proposed rewording of 97.221 and the total absence of
> restrictions that IARU Region 1 provided in their
> bandplan.
> 
> >From this, you should be able to form your own
> conclusions.
> 
> 73, Skip KH6TY
> Member of the former ARRL Ad Hoc HFDigital Committee
> 
> Skip:
> 
> Thanks for the insight.  The "other people's opinions"
> that I seek are those like yours from the inside - and
> others, like myself, whom are on the outside looking
> in.  From my perspective - it is a strange
> coincidence, and that article does shed some light on
> the origin, intent, and morphology of the petition.
> 
> Edited by ac0db on Jan. 19 2006,20:18
> 
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> Matthew E. Engelbrecht
> ACØDB
> 
> 
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