I was at the Hanging Judge (Fort Smith, AR) Hamfest this week. About 21 attended the forum, and two there had problems with the proposal until I explained what I knew the actual facts to be. After that, I asked if, knowing what they now know, was anyone opposed to 11306. No one was. Once the facts are clearly explained, opposition subsides. One ham even came up to me afterward and apologized for being "so forward". I personally don't think anyone had any complaints until the blogs muddied the issue. A month ago this was a non-issue. 73, Karl, WA5TMC 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