good ol' boys on 75m

[frenaye at pcnet.com]

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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>From kf3p at cais.cais.com (Tyler Stewart)  Wed Feb  7 03:20:33 1996
From: kf3p at cais.cais.com (Tyler Stewart) (Tyler Stewart)
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 22:20:33 -0500
Subject: I think some of you missed the point...
Message-ID: <199602070320.WAA08185 at cais.cais.com>

I seeing a lot of my thread thrown back at the reflector as "hillbilly hate
mail".  

I think you guys are missing the point.  

The SSB Sprint in particular is extremely disruptive and frustrating to
those who live on "75" phone.  In other words, the arent ALL wrong!  Yes,
they shouldnt start in with the profanity and jamming and all, but it's not like
they'll do it if they arent provoked.  

IMHO, 80 meters in the evening is just not a suitable environment for this
contest.  Even if EVERYONE asked if the frequency was in use before
transmitting (or even listened for Low Joe Dipole for 1 second),  you can
imagine the problem:

..."Yea, Joe, that varmint scared 'ping..is the frequency in use?' out of
my Bessy... (another station steals the freq) 'CQ Sprint! OU812!'...have a cow!
'KR0Y!' ...Hey! the freq...'KR0Y 69 Eddie CA' ...use! 'OU812 88 Jeff TX KR0Y'..
'Rog'...It's those DAMN...'KF3P!'..test..'KF3P 10 million Jeff TX'...GET YOUR
F'ING...'KR0Y, Wow!..on phone, too!, number 5 Ty MD KF3P'.. '<pop>'...!#@$%^#$@
Sprint!  WHAT THE HELL YOU...'CQ Sprint KF3P!'....

You can figure the rest of it out...

73, "Ty"