More FYI. Again please read, react, repost and spread the word far and
wide!Allen N5XZ Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: Ted Rappaport N9NB <[email protected]>
Date: 4/2/19 1:00 PM (GMT-06:00) To: [email protected], 'N3JT'
<[email protected]>, 'Dan White' <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected],
[email protected] Subject: RE: This is it -- the chance for our beloved hobby!
Dear colleagues, the ARRL has an important series of errors on its note today
about RM-11831. I have written them but hope you can also apread the word, I am
hoping that ARRL fixes this: The text below is needed and should be corrected
(I have alerted ARRL officials)
athttp://www.arrl.org/news/petition-for-rule-making-calls-for-amateur-digital-mode-transparency
: Kolarik said his petition also aims to reduce levels of amateur-to-amateur
interference from Automated Controlled Digital Stations (ACDS) on HF operating
under §97.221(d)(2).(There is no 97.221 (d)(2)???? ) Kolarik wants the FCC to
delete §97.221(c), which permits automatic control of digital emissions
anywhere in the CW/RTTY sub bands, outside of the ACDS sub bands as defined by
97.221(b),provided the station “is responding to interrogation by a station
under local or remote control, and [n]o transmission from the automatically
controlled station occupies a bandwidth of more than 500 Hz.” ACDS stations
would thus be required to operate only in the ACDS sub bands, under Mr.
Kolarik’s proposal. From: Ted Rappaport N9NB [mailto:[email protected]] Sent:
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 12:31 PMTo: [email protected]; 'N3JT'; 'Dan White'Cc:
[email protected]; [email protected]: FW: This is it -- the chance for our
beloved hobby!Importance: High Now more than, ever, we need to spread the word,
write to FCC in favor of RM-11831, and urge congress and ARRL to pass RM-11831.
Its now or never, please spread the word on all chat lines, blogs, and places
where hams will care for the future of our hobby. 73 ted
n9nb-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dear
Ham Radio Colleagues: You have steadfastly learned the facts and responded
with factual, clear reason on the flawed RM-11708/NPRM 16-239, and on the
aggressive digital takeover of RM-11828, and RM-11759 for private email, often
for illegal boaters or private secure email that bypasses other means. The FCC
and ARRL has heard us!!!! This is truly amazing, and a chance for our hobby to
get back to harmony and growth with the public being able to listen,
participate, and hear all conversations! Spread the word, as this is finally
our chance to PREVENT ham radio from becoming a private email service! First,
last week, the new ARRL board, with its new ARRL attorney, for the first time
in 20 years, has acknowledged that our voice is legitimate, and has heard the
concerns of the digital bandwidth aggression and lack of open, interceptable
data on HF that past ARRL boards have
pepetrated!See:https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1032717663093/ARRL%20Ltr%202%20FCC%2016-239%2003_27_2019.pdf
Then, the FCC just published RM-11831! THIS IS OUR CHANCE! WOW! FINALLY – the
first public recognition by the FCC of the major problem in HF ham radio! This
is your chance to save our hobby and spur on its growth for its intended
purpose!
https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?proceedings_name=RM-11831&sort=date_disseminated,DESC
Please – this is SO VITAL that you respond to the FCC ECFS and also to your
ARRL board members and elected officials! Here is just one example of a
response, please please get the word out to other hams, and write to FCC and
ARRL leaders, and to congress, as they all need to hear from you, too, that you
support the immediate passage of RM-11831! Example comment at FCC for
RM-11831:https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filing/1033179521395 The FCC has heard us,
and realizes for the first time that there is a REAL problem with
pseudo-encrypted data on the ham bands, and has woken up to the digital
bandwidth aggression! For the first time in 20 years, the FCC has now asked
for comments on the Winlink/ARSFI playbook that uses data that is extremely
difficult/if not impossible/for hams to intercept, and their continual quest
for more HF bandwidth!. Here is our hobby’s chance to put the genie back in
the bottle, to contain the wideband aggression of pseudo-encrypted email
stations, and to keep the ham bands open to the public for future growth and
participation by the public in eavesdropping all of the traffic! Comments are
urgently needed, and your support of RM-11831, and rejection of RM-11708, WT
16-239, RM-11828, and RM-11759 are urgently needed! Please, get the word out to
keep ham radio open to interception over the air, and to contain the
automatically controlled, unattended data stations to within their existing
allocation (without expanding to all frequencies!). The boaters and winlink’ers
are flooding the ballot box now to stop our one chance -- you must spread the
word and let FCC know we want all data to be open to intercept, and the
bandwidth for improper point-to-point email must be contained. This RM-11831
solves all the problems we have been concerned about, so now more than ever, we
have a chance to finally urge that something be ACCEPTED and passed by FCC,
instead of having to fight against the continual aggression waged by the old
ARRL board filed (eg. The ARRL Ad Hoc HF digital committee, RM-11306, RM-11708,
etc.). Please, now more than ever, it is critical that you write into the FCC
ECFS (See “Wireless Girl” for how to file in all dockets), your ARRL directors,
and elected federal officials to ADOPT RM-11831 asap….. please file your
comments to protect the commons of ham radio, to protect the future of our
hobby, and to finally bring realization that all ham radio traffic should be
decoded by others. Write in for your strong support of RM-11831 and file
simultaneously against RM-11708, 16-239, RM-11828, and RM-11759 that sought to
expand the digital takeover without addressing the obscured messaging problem.
Let your congress leaders and ARRL members know, as well. I am taking a lot of
bullets for the hobby, we need to make sure our efforts are not in vain. This
is for the heart and soul and future of ham radio and our nation’s security and
the reservoir of technical efforts for our next
generation.https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/104012122120334/30March19FCCLetter.pdf
73 ted n9nb
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