Pete, WA2CWA is using a tactic often seen when criticism backs someone against the wall -- he uses a distracting topic to try to steer the conversation away from the subject at hand.
The proposal I helped write (to which he has referred) has been comprehensively vetted after the group I was involved with this past summer filed it as a Petition with the FCC and published it in the same venues where Pete participates. We have been receptive to support and criticism, and both are appreciated, have been responded to, and remain registered in how we will move forward should the FCC accept the proposal for formal Comment. None of that has to do with our collective review here and elsewhere of the bandwidth scheme that more recently came from the group in Newington, unless of course Pete, in his mind, has elevated the stature of the seven-member Communications Think Tank to the same level as the publishing, membership and subscription group known as the ARRL. In that case, thanks for the compliment. To bring us back to the subject matter we are discussing today, I again submit this nugget I found penned by Mike, W8MW and posted to one of the threads on QRZ.com He has summed up very well the sentiment against the League's proposal that Pete, and a few others, are failing to defend on its own merits. Paul/VJB Mike W8MW said -- IMHO, attempts to tweak the league's petition cannot mitigate the flawed process that produced a biased plan. Among the many mis-steps of the digital committee, they took it upon themselves to mingle in the operating interests of legacy mode operators. A handful of individuals not sharing these interests is intent on placing new restrictions on them. I see this as arrogance to the extreme from those individuals and a serious lapse in stewardship by the league. So now there's a petition seeking to regulate us all, based on the views of a few and lacking benefit of a fair and reasonable process involving all stakeholders. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
