For those of you who have not seen this, Mr. Teller is continuing his campaign against just about everything we propose. And as usual, he is distorting the facts to fit his personal agenda.
-- Andy Oppel, N6AJO Pacific Division Vice Directory
----- Original Message ----- From: "Skip Teller" <hteller@comcast.net> To: <qrp-l@mailman.qth.net> Cc: "Howard Teller" <hteller@comcast.net> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 8:30 PM Subject: [QRP-L] Re: ARRL assault on (QRP) CW
I urge all of you not to be complacent about this matter!
As an invited member of the original ARRL committee from which the "bandwidth petition" sprang, I saw early on that the real intent of the committee, chaired by the originator of Winlink, was to turn control of the HF bands over to Winlink Email robots, and that "segmentation by bandwidth" was merely a guise for doing this. I even felt it necessary to issue a dissenting recommendation, which you may read here:
http://www.zerobeat.net/bandplan-dissent.html
Now the ARRL is trying again, and in so doing, divulging the true purpose behind their original "bandwidth petition", by taking advantage of the fact that CW has been dropped as a requirement, basically leaving only RTTY and Data as important modes in the eyes of the ARRL. You may notice the complete absence of CW as a mode in the table of HF modes attached to the ARRL's Ex-parte attempted modification to RM-11306, which may or may not actually be allowed, since it basically scraps the concept of segmentation by bandwidth and preserves segmentation by mode for all bands under 10m. I don't see how the FCC can accept this magnitude of change to RM-11306 without requiring a totally new petition and comment period.
However, just in case they do, I have put together a simple explanation of how to file a comment and I strongly urge each one of you to file a comment NOW if you value your ability to enjoy CW in the future. Please do not be complacent and assume everything will be OK! Just take a couple of minutes to file a comment. Here is a form to follow:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hteller/comment.htm
Lots of comments DO influence the FCC. It worked to keep the robots off the phone bands, so now we must again work to keep them from taking over the RTTY and CW activity areas.
Please help!
73, Skip KH6TY
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