AA5UO says:
>A thought just occured to me when I read this: email has made it much
>easier for people to "write their congressman". Witness the claim that
>over 600,000 email messages were sent to the Washington pols last year.
>Sending a recorded message from 75m is just as easy by including it as
>a uuencoded .wav or .au file. A recording can be emailed to the FCC, ARRL,
>your congressmen, etc. just as easily. You no longer have to make a
>cassette copy for each person you want to send it to.
>
>My suggestion, then, is to email the recorded vulgar language and
>obscenities to everyone you can think of that could have a positive
>affect on the situation. And do it every time you witness it. I can't help
>but believe that this would become a real "squeaky wheel".
>
This is a bad idea (send info on vulgar language on ham bands to Congress).
It's hard enough getting someone in Congress to take the time to listen to
reasons why they should care about the miniscule Amateur Radio lobby when
compared to the billion dollar telecommunications lobby. If we have any
chance to get their attention it should be over positive things they can do
for us (like more room on 40 meters, or keeping Part 15 devices off our VHF
bands), and positive impressions we can make on them (emergency
communications and practical application of new technology). Vulgar
language or jamming isn't a positive thing to talk about and requires real
careful management of volunteers, the FCC and selected Congressional staff
members on just a very few selective cases if any at all. We don't want the
short attention span of someone in Congress to remember us because of foul
language.
73 Tom
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