Jay, I fully agree with you. I believe that educating the membership and allowing them the opportunity to become involved in suggesting legitimate changes is very important. The only negative comments I received were we dont need more regulation and why do you want to screw up 160 M with a lot of sub-bands? Hmmm. I satisfied the latter, but the former fellow persisted in his erroneous beliefs. Two others legitimately asked questions. Incidentally, I didnt think it was Dave who gave us our marching orders. I thought it was the imperialistic, neo-fascist, money-grubbing equipment manufacturers! Jim Weaver, K8JE Director, Great Lakes Division ARRL; http://www.arrl.org/ 5065 Bethany Rd., Mason, OH 45040 Tel.: 513-459-0142; E-mail: k8je@arrl.org ARRL: The reason Amateur Radio Is! MEMBERS: The reason ARRL Is! -----Original Message----- From: John Bellows [mailto:jbellows@skypoint.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 11:08 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: [ARRL-ODV:11118] Re: Bandwidth petition Web story Following up on Jim Weavers note, shortly after the Bandwidth site on the web came online I sent a Division email outlining the Bandwidth proposal and directing folks to the web site for a complete explanation. Other than one response warning me that I was going to get a lot of negative comments and one member who said we are all tools of Dave Sumner, all the remaining responses (about a dozen) have been positive. A few folks would like to see a tweak or two but nothing significant. Even so Ill bet the reaction would have been much different if we had filed the petition first. Jay, KØQB -----Original Message----- From: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ [mailto:dsumner@arrl.org] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 11:03 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: [ARRL-ODV:11114] Bandwidth petition Web story Now that just about everyone has their September QST, we've posted a Web story about the planned bandwidth petition. No doubt this will set off a flurry of additional comments and questions, which so far have been relatively light and scattered. Dave K1ZZ http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/08/25/1/?nc=1