I don't have an exact tally. It is probably an overstatement to suggest that there were NO supportive comments from Winlink people; there were several supportive comments, one of which we cited in our reply comments. For example, there were some very supportive comments from Nick Leggette, N3NL. But the few supportive comments filed were not aimed particularly at encouraging Winlink, which was not the focus of the proposal. So it is hard to tell which of the very few supportive comments were filed by Winlink users and which were filed by others who were merely forward-looking supporters of digital mode experimentation and implementation at HF. Winlink is something of a sideshow here.


I'll have to defer to Chris for the exact number, Bruce, but if there were
any supportive comments there wasn't more than a hand full.

I saw one email today that suggested there were 15,000 WinLink users. If
only 10% of those would have filed comments in support of RM-11306 that
would have significantly overshadowed the negative ones. Unfortunately, they
didn't

Chris, do you have the exact tally?

Joel


-----Original Message-----
To: "arrl-odv" <arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org>
Subject: [arrl-odv:15373]  Re: RM-11306
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 18:35:36 -0500

One thing I've struggled with, especially with the new pro-Winlink group but

also the other emails, is how to let them know it was a great idea to go to 
FCC to see what we could salvage of the petition, without coming out and 
saying "and they invited us to do so".

So Joel -- there were no supporting comments from the Winlink types?  I've 
been telling these recent correspondents that they needed to generate many 
more supportive comments next time. I didn't realize they'd done NONE on 
this.

73  Bruce K0BJ