From: Brett gazdzinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
...I don't pay any attention
to the politics, fcc stuff, incentive, arrl, ... Now if someone was
building something, I perk right up!
But it's important to pay attention to that stuff, boring and frustrating as
it may be. Remember the days of Johnny Johnston and the FCC's Private Radio
Bureau, when almost monthly the FCC released yet another ill-conceived,
poorly thought-out rulemaking docket, or released an RM-number to some lame
petition, that managed to threaten AM operating privileges in some way, or
even threaten the very existence of amateur AM? Are you still "legal"
whenever you fire up your AM kilowatt?
Back then we had no internet to discuss the issues, and had to rely on
printed publications and snail mail. Sometimes most of us were lucky to
even find out about a rulemaking petition by ARRL or some disgruntled
anti-AM'er, or an FCC rulemaking proposal, before the cut-off date for the
comment period.
With the advent of the internet with amateur radio discussion forums and
e-mail reflectors, hardly a phrase from FCC, ARRL, or any vocal anti-AM'er
can get by without the entire AM community knowing about it within hours of
its release.
Notice how the anti-AM actions have dwindled in recent years, and AM has
become a widely accepted facet of mainstream amateur radio, even regaining
some recognition by ARRL and QST.
But we still can't afford to ignore the political stuff from ARRL, FCC or
disgruntled hams. Look what has happened to major political candidates from
both parties when they simply ignored bogus attack ads and hoped they would
fade away.
I love building, modifying and operating AM stuff, and I want to maintain
the right to do so. There are still many out there that would do anything
they possibly could to have that privilege taken away.
Don k4kyv
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