Joel, Your perception is correct. This is for the most part a non-issue. I have been to two local hamfests since the story broke and had no questions save for a comment from Pete "the manual man" who is well aware of the bandwidth issue. He was not angry or concerned as I have been speaking to him about the issues involved here for a few years. He was concerned a while back that AM, his favorite mode, would be impacted. Once he saw that it would not he was fine with the issue. The only e-mails that I have seen have been the bulk mailing from the friends of Skip who are not in my division. I did not receive any mail for any Hudson members. One exception. I did have an e-mail from a ham friend I speak to daily who saw Skip's posting on the RTTY reflector and wanted to know what this was all about. I answered him and he was fine with it and I think forwarded my reply to a few of his friends. It is not an issue here and I have not seen anyone with matches either. 73 de Frank...N2FF...... Joel Harrison wrote:

I’m curious what you are hearing now about our bandwidth subset proposal to the FCC at in-person events.

My email has now been reduced to only those that are not ARRL members that are still complaining about things in general (incentive licensing, elimination of Morse for licensing, etc) not the specifics of the proposal.

This weekend, I attended the AES Superfest in Milwaukee with Dick Isely. You will receive my trip report soon, but I want to tell you there were about 1000 attending and not one, not one single person even mentioned the proposal. All I received were positive all around comments about what we’re doing. I even brought up the topic of regulation by bandwidth at the ARRL forum, where we had around 120 attending, and not one person had any comment or complaints about it.

I know Bill Edgar was at Timonium this weekend. I talked to Bill last night and he had no complaints, only a couple of questions about the proposal. Bill Cross was there and conducted a forum and Bill reports that the subject was not raised there.

One thing is obvious; the comments of substance have actually been supportive of the original proposal. Where were these guys before! Dave, Chris and I will be evaluating where we are with this matter and will report shortly.

So, I’m curious as to what you are hearing at your eyeball events.

73 Joel W5ZN