[Hallicrafters] FCC NPRM

Thu Jul 21 09:56:51 EDT 2005

Duane, you bring up an interesting point.  On the police officers:  we have had incidents in the
New Orleans area where a plethora of ammo was expended way above what is normal!
Recently, officers were chasing a pickup truck with 3 young male subjects inside.  After the
truck was cornered, the driver was killed and the other two were wounded, as police
claimed the truck was backing up on them.  There was several officers on the scene and
somewhere between 100 and 150 rounds were fired!  The subjects in the truck were
NOT armed!  Sounds like the officers were "having fun" or their aim was terribly poor!
Having worn a "blue suit" at one time, the tactics used these days seem adopted from
some despotic police state instead of a Constitutional Republic.  This applies to
radio regulation as well today!  The authorities seems to cater to "where the money
is", and that's all that really seems to matter.
73,
Sandy W5TVW
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
To: "Bill Gerhold" <k2wh at optonline.net>; <W4AWM at aol.com>; <hallicraftersgroup at rogerhalstead.com>
Cc: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] FCC NPRM

| Bill, 
| 
| There is still time for all of us who are opposed to the plan "as is" to write
| and file our formal remarks. I would encourage all to do exactly that! Not just
| to the FCC, but also to your state Congressman or Congresswoman and state
| Senator as well. Present a solid case, backed up by facts these people can
| grasp. They are busy, they will not read a long letter. Keep it short, keep it
| polite, keep it focused, keep it on facts they can relate to. Such as the
| importance of what Ham Radi does for protecting residents in severe weather
| situations for the NWS, handling emergency traffic during a hurricane and so
| forth. They are always interested in the human element, as that is who goes to
| the polls! 
| 
| Remind them that cheapening the qualifications for a Ham is just the same as
| making police officers less capable with a weapon by requiring less practice
| time on the range under strict supervision and training by experienced senior
| officers, or knowing when to pursue a vehicle in a chase and when not to, or
| risking a disaster by saving money and shortening training time for a fireman
| who getes less training and simulated experience in selecting the right agent to
| put out a fire with. Hams save lives and our elected officials must be made to
| realize it, appreciate it and protect our rights! This is not done by giving out
| licenses and lowering the standards so that anyone who wants one can get one.
| Remind them it may be their child who is saved because a trained spotter for the
| Sky Warn program in their community identifies a for real lowering of a tornadic
| cloud and the NWS gets out a warning, the children in the school in the storms
| path take shelter and their lives are spared. We are important and anything that
| makes us less capable, less skilled and less able to operate properly and
| effectively is a threat to America! 
| 
| While I personally am opposed to the CW being abandoned totally, after all, five
| words per minute is NOT some great challenge! While it may be difficult for some
| people, it is doable by almost anyone who really wants to get a license. For
| those with special needs, there are alternatives already available. Even if the
| CW is only retained for the Extra class, i do not think anybody should be hurt
| by that. I do not believe that anyone should be grandfathered, or in any way by
| any name, switched from a Technician class license to a General class license
| without first taking and passing the General class written examination. If we do
| not want to end up with Citizens Band all over again, then we MUST educate,
| train and instruct all those joining Amateur Radio, as well as all of those
| upgrading their licenses, in the right ways and not just give the licenses away
| like is being proposed. If Ham Radio is ruined, it will be because all of us sat
| on our butts with our hands in our pockets and did not even try to prevent what
| we could have stopped! The 'powers that be' will, and do, hear our voices and
| will respond 'IF' we all band together and bury their desks under so many 'real'
| postage stamp variety of letters it looks like a snow storm hit the room!
| Electronic mail is not effective! It is almost never seen by the person, it is
| read and all too often discarded by a secretary or other person. At best it gets
| a minor notation in a ledger that the Congressperson or Senator may, or may not,
| see every week or month. Then he/she glances at it. But a letter on their desk,
| it gets attention. 
| 
| Not my opinion, but the suggestions given to me by the staff of several
| Congressmen and state Senators I know. But we all first have to take a few
| minutes to write a short, concise, easy to understand and 'important to America'
| letter and mail it, or we have nobody but ourselves to blame when the Amateur
| Radio bands become a sewer of waste products as happendd with Citizens Band
| radio.            
| 
| Duane Fischer, W8DBF 
| 
| 
| 
| ----------
| From: Bill Gerhold <k2wh at optonline.net>
| To: W4AWM at aol.com; hallicraftersgroup at rogerhalstead.com
| Cc: hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
| Subject: RE: [Hallicrafters] FCC NPRM
| Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 8:46 PM
| 
| It's a damn shame the FCC decided to go with the flow and follow the 3rd
| world rule making entities.  I thought the FCC would lead the world and make
| a bold statement by keeping the code at least for the Extra portion of the
| bands.
| 
| But, what will all this mean when the Report and Order comes down?  Does it
| mean techs/no-code techs will have General privileges?  Will they be
| grandfathered?
| 
| K2WH
| 
| -----Original Message-----
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| Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 8:13 PM
| To: hallicraftersgroup at rogerhalstead.com
| Cc: hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
| Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] FCC NPRM
| 
| Someone should remind the powers that be that the first and many subsequent 
| communications to come out of the tsunami area was CW!
| 
| If this keeps up, I guess we will all be good buddies soon. Guess I will go 
| into the power mic, roger tones and echo box business!
| 
| 73,
| 
| John,  W4AWM
| 
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