Amen to both this and Tom, W8JI's earlier comments. We're a small community
and we certainly need to get along to survive. Let's focus on exchanging
technical and operating info, improving our stations, and (heaven forbid)
even having fun.
My $0.02 worth.
73 to all...Dave Raymond
W0FLS
-----Original Message-----
From: topband-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:topband-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Herb Schoenbohm
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 12:07 PM
To: W2pm@aol.com
Cc: n1rj@adelphia.net; topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Re: 1837.5 KC/1845 KC CW QRM
Riley is a consummate federal bureaucrat who, as Pat Buchannan used to
say, rides to the sound of the gunfire. Riley has said it often that his
position of amateur radio czar is a labor of love for amateur radio.
There is no such official FCC position as amateur radio czar. Riley's
fatwahs are much more tempered these days with the realization that
amateur is supposed to be self policing. To federalize every turf
battle creates dangerous a knife that cuts both ways.
In my view we must rally behind the age old "Gentleman's Band" concept,
underscored so often in the past by W1BB, Stew Perry. (He put out more
brush fires on 160 than the National Forest Service. We are 160, not the
ARRL nor the FCC! The framers of our government believed in the fact
that the least governed as most likely the best governed. Federalizing
minor disputes on TopBand is a complete anathema to the freedom there we
have all enjoyed for so many years. If the intransigence gets out of
control perhaps we could set up some topband operator based mediation or
conflict resolution teams willing to listen to both sides.. This
certainly would be preferable to firing denigrating broadsides back and
forth and running to Riley for help. Again there is no guarantee that
RH nor the feds will weigh in on the best side. In turfs wars like
this nobody wins.
Can't we all just get along?
73,
Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ
W2pm@aol.com wrote:
>Is Riley prepared to "enforce" the "voluntary band plans" during contests?
>Man, he is going to be one busy guy. And how does one enforce a voluntary
>initiative? This is very bad precedent not for hams but for FCC because
this can
>been as selective harassment and abuse of power which could erode Riley's
>authority in the long run.
>
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