The comment deadline was yesterday, although the Commission doesn't necessarily ignore late-filed comments. Dave From: Boehner, James, N2ZZ Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 12:46 AM To: Woll, Marty, N6VI; Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ; arrl-odv Subject: Bandplan proposal Marty, Yes. I spoke with one of my NTS friends last night and he is all for the proposal. Perhaps the way to do it is to originate radiograms to all the state (section) net managers. With that method, liaisons would be informed, and on voice nets, the entire net would hear the traffic. The only concern is sending the link to the FCC website via radiogram-but we could use the RM number or refer to our website. East coast could send to West coast and vica versa for the most hands the traffic would fall into. It would remain mostly within NTS whose members should be supportive. Those that participate in nets tend not to be the 75 M ragchewers that are on every night on the same frequency. i.e. 3600-3650 KHz. It would certainly be a break from all the congratulations and license renewal traffic on the nets. It should be a boost for NTS morale as well. It could even get us our first BPL (Brass Pounders League, not the other stuff) award too. Win-Win! '73 de JIM N2ZZ Director - Roanoke Division Serving ARRL members in the Virginia, West Virginia, South Carolina and North Carolina sections ARRL - The National Association for Amateur Radio(tm) From: arrl-odv [mailto:arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org] On Behalf Of Marty Woll Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 11:52 PM To: 'James F. Boehner MD'; 'Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ'; 'arrl-odv' Subject: [arrl-odv:25258] Re: Bandplan proposal Did anybody think to use NTS (whose members would benefit from the return of some elbow room on 80m) as a vehicle to solicit supporting letters? 73, Marty N6VI From: arrl-odv [mailto:arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org] On Behalf Of James F. Boehner MD via arrl-odv Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 8:20 PM To: 'Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ'; 'arrl-odv' Subject: [arrl-odv:25257] Bandplan proposal Looking at reply comments, it appears most of the recent filings are against our proposal: http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/proceeding/view?name=RM-11759 If we could only mobilize those that were against our symbol rate proposal to send in favorable comments for this one. From those comments, the digital ops had some incredible vehicle of communication to pass the word along. '73 de JIM N2ZZ Director - Roanoke Division Serving ARRL members in the Virginia, West Virginia, South Carolina and North Carolina sections ARRL - The National Association for Amateur Radio(tm)