Thanks Don, very informative. Hope it doesn't come to that... Hope to talk to you soon as I get my Globe King 400B up and running, you already have a great signal into Cincinnati, 73, Tim K8WBL
"I Need Mo Powa, Cap'n!" --- On Tue, 10/7/08, D. Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: D. Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [AMRadio] The Mother of all anti-AM FCC Proposals To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 2:31 PM Here is a little history lesson. Some readers may remember Docket 20777, first introduced to the amateur community by Johnny Johnston at the FCC Forum at Dayton in 1976. This was one of the first of a long series of dockets and petitions to eliminate or restrict the use of AM on the amateur frequencies. Under the guise of "deregulation", the FCC would have outlawed AM on all amateur frequencies below 28.5 mHz. It is remarkably similar to the recent ill-fated ARRL bandwidth petition, but without a "footnote" to preserve AM privileges. For many AM'ers on the air to-day, this proposal is ancient history predating their living memory, or they have never heard of it. For others, it is a vague memory but the details have become vague. FYI, here is the full text of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking as it appeared in April, 1976. Note the heading: "In the Matter of Deregulation of Part 97... Pay particular attention to paragraph 5, page 2, and the first page of Appendix II. http://amfone.net/Amforum/index.php?topic=17319.0 ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
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