Joel: The eye of the storm has passed and very little, if any, damage has been recorded and/or noticed. There were a few Hams in New Mexico that had their boxers in a ball but they have settled down. Your trips to MFJ and AES sounded successful and fun. Thanks es 73, Rev WS7W On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 14:04:21 -0500 "Joel Harrison" <w5zn@arrl.org> 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