Re: [RFI] RFI & FCC

[Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>]

At 12:11 PM 5/20/2004, dgsvetan@rockwellcollins.com wrote:
> ...
> Doc, as for your comments about 9/11, I sent an e-mail to the editor of
> 2-way industry trade rag shortly after 9/11.  His magazine had been crowing
> over the fact that Motorola worked non-stop in loading 72 semis with comm
> gear to ship to NYC after the disaster, and that it took nearly a week to
> accomplish that task.  I asked him who he thought might have kept the comms
> going for that week while all of that effort was being made by Moto.  I
> accompanied my message with an excerpt from the ARRL Bulletin that
> summarized the work done by hams in those days immediately following the
> attack.  I also reminded him that some of those hams helping out could well
> be readers of his magazine.  He actually did print my letter and thanked me
> for the submittal.

Dale, does ARRL know about that letter and its publication in a non-ham 
journal?  Seems like the sort of thing that would be useful to them.


73, Pete N4ZR
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