FYI
Allen R. Brier N5XZ 1515 Windloch Lane Richmond, TX 77406 From: Ted Rappaport N9NB <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2018 8:31 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; 'Dan Atchison' <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: RE: Winlink fights back Importance: High This will likely be my last email on the subject. EVER. Before you say “oh, good…” please hear me out, one last time. You owe it to yourself to look at the public filings, and to speak now, or forever hold your peace. What do you want ham radio HF bands to become? Just read these public letters that Winlink and ARSFI supporters have written in. By the hundreds, and no one speaking out against this spectrum takeover. <https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?proceedings_name=16-239&sort=date_disseminated,DESC> https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?proceedings_name=16-239&sort=date_disseminated,DESC For the past 2 weeks, over 200 filers from the cruising associations, the yacht clubs, and other Winlink supporters have written to the FCC in strong support of the ARSFI position paper, that singles me out as an instigator of emotional fire, and other such things. This smear tactic seems to be working, as no one is speaking out at the FCC against the HF aggression and the proven inability of one pactor modem to intercept another pactor modem in a different qso when they are in ARQ mode. IF this NPRM 16-239 goes through, you can say “bye bye” to any limit of bandwidth and unintelligible transmissions of email , with business content and business bypass, throughout the HF bands. That’s what ARSFI wants, and what emcommers want to be able to do using ham spectrum. I can sleep at night, having tried to defend the safety of my country and the hobby that I love. If no one speaks up at the FCC, or writes Congress about this, my efforts to call attention to something that I know is dangerous will have failed, and will have fallen fallow. I’ve done my duty as a citizen and expert, and as a friend of the hobby. Right now, it seems that no one really cares, based on the FCC filings. See this <https://winlink.org/FCC_Action> https://winlink.org/FCC_Action If you care about this kind of traffic, unintelligible traffic of unlimited data rate, with business use and bypass of commercial email on the HF bands, please write your congress officials, and please file comments against the ARSFI position and the vast number of Winlink enthusiasts. It is so easy to file a FCC comment at ESCF…...just visit “wireless girl” for filing instructions, and file your comments against NPRM 16-239 and ARQ Transmissions simultaneously at these 3 FCC dockets: 16-239, RM-11708, and RM-11759 Best wishes, and don’t say I didn’t warn you in a few years from now, if you all remain quiet and apathetic. Just read some of the text on those 2 links above before you delete and forget about this. I’ve been telling you this is real. It’s now time to decide if you care or not. So far, it seems no one really cares. Very 73 and Happy Holidays! ted n9nb From: Ted [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2018 3:12 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; Dan Atchison Subject: Re: Winlink fights back Note how this note to the Winlink troops lies about the FCC NPRM 16-239. Winlink promotes a blatant falsehood that NPRM 16-239 proposes to remove the 300 baud limit and replace it with a 2.8 kHz bandwidth limit. That is blatantly false. NPRM 16-239 proposes to remove the 300 baud limit and proposes to replace it with NO BANDWIDTH LIMIT. Unlimited bandwidth obscured data. Sadly, such blatant falsehoods are to be expected in this spectrum take over. It's your spectrum.... for now. See the facts, and: 1. Write Congress, 2. File your factual comments at NPRM 16-239, 3. Write Law enforcement officials at state and national level, and 4. Write newly elected ARRL board members. 73 ted N9NB Sent from smartphone, please excuse typos On Dec 6, 2018, at 2:40 PM, Ted <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: FYI- important ....it's our spectrum, for now. Read below- see what we are up against. Please consider the factual (they are not emotional) issues. Spread the word urgently, and write your elected officials and the FCC about the problems with NPRM 16-239, and the need to dismiss it immediately and entirely. Ask congress and the FCC to look at the facts, and to fix the existing problems with lack of open interception of Pactor and other proprietary ARQ modes , lack of station CW ID, continual control op and ACDS violations, known business use over ham radio, and commercial bypass of other email/internet services. These are not emotional issues. They are facts. It's easy for aggressors to cast factual arguments as "emotional." That is being done here, and this should reveal to hamdom what we the fraternity of ham radio, are up against. Consider carefully the 15 years of ARRL and Winlink developers - and their lack of interest in addressing and resolving long held concerns. To me this seems to be a continual effort to take over the amateur HF spectrum, and to turn our hobby into a private email/internet service . You must read below and make your views, based on fact, known to Congress and FCC. And hopefully to the newly elected arrl board members. The tiny 0.4% minority of Pactor/winlink HF users in America want to drive home rules that overlook current violations, and will lead to a take over the ham HF spectrum with ARRL's help. Please read below and write to your elected officials and to FCC , and federal law enforcement, to register your views to protect your spectrum. See something, say something. This is serious as you can see below. 73 ted N9NB Looks like the cut 'n paste comment machine has been activated. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [winlink-programs-group] A call to action to support the FCC proposal to replace the current 300 baud HF digital transmission limit with a 2.8KHz Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 07:23:14 -0800 (PST) From: Tom N5TW <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> To: Winlink Programs Group <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> Yesterday the ARSFI board filed with the FCC a comprehensive response to the online and media campaign that Theodore Rappaport has been leading to get the FCC to dismiss the pending Notice of Proposed Rule Making (Docket No. 16-239). The proposal would eliminate the current 300 baud limit on HF digital transmissions and replace it with a 2.8 kHz bandwidth limitation. We're in favor of this for many reasons, mostly because the advancement of the radio art is impeded without it, but for most Winlink stakeholders it will allow Pactor 4--finally--in the USA. There has been a concerted emotional campaign led by Ted Rappaport that has stampeded many to make negative comments on this in an attempt to block this important step forward. I encourage everyone to click on this link https://winlink.org/FCC_Action and to read what Rappaport sent the FCC and our response to his claims and to make your own informed decision about this important issue. If you have a stake in this, we urge you to please immediately file a comment on the ECFS. It's easy: <https://winlink.org/content/ECFS> Click here. Time is of the essence. You don't have to write a masterpiece. An 'express' comment that endorses the ARSFI filing is all that's needed. Also, spread the word. Send a link to https://winlink.org/FCC_Action to all you know who care, especially those you know in leadership positions with emergency management or government agencies, the ARRL, and organizations and agencies that have a stake in Winlink. Let them know, and ask them to take a few moments to put their opinion on the record, or simply say you agree with us with a reference to our filing.
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