[CQ-Contest] Reporting Bogus Station Addresses To The FCC

[W3DMB at aol.com]

Regarding the advice to write to your congressmen.

Before the vanity call system came into being - - -  
In 1969 I lived in Gettysburg PA and decided to talk to the friendly people 
at the FCC office about changing my call...  It was going to go thru real 
easy. They had my FCC Form 610 and check for $ 4.00 and everything needed. 
Then I was informed that the local FCC office at Gettysburg received an order 
that they could no longer do that.  WHY ? because a radio/tech school in 
Washington DC thought it would be neat to have W3NRI for their radio club 
station - which would have been like a vanity call at that time. The call was 
available and IF they had just talked to the good people at the Gettysburg 
FCC office they would have received the call they wanted.
BUT they instead contacted three US Senators and some US Congressman to apply 
pressure on the FCC to get their desired call.
The result was that the Washington FCC office sent a directive to the 
Gettysburg office to issue all calls in the strict sequence order as they 
came out of the computer from that moment on - and the 'National Radio 
Institute did not get their call. But they were able to mess up a friendly 
system that had existed up until then.  According to a quick search of the 
data base they no longer want it..
So be careful on using congressman to pressure government offices including 
the FCC.

G H Wetzel
W3DMB  (Doing My Best)
Butler PA

PS: I decided to keep my call even after the vanity system started.
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In a message dated 13-Aug-01 19:10:28 Eastern Daylight Time, 
w7ti at dslextreme.com writes:
> 
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 14:19:09 -0600, LORONA,AL (A-USA,ex3) wrote:
> 
> >I think there's a woodwork of
> >utterly frustrated individuals out there who, like me, have wanted to drop
> >kick the ULS right through the computer monitor.
> 
> _________________________________________________________
> 
> I have written my congressman and both senators about the ULS mess.  I
> urge everyone to do the same.
> 
> Bill, W7TI
> 


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>From Rich K2WR" <k2wr at njdxa.org  Wed Aug 15 14:31:45 2001
From: Rich K2WR" <k2wr at njdxa.org (Rich K2WR)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:31:45 -0400
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Reporting Bogus Station Addresses To The FCC
References: <134.c1fb.28abc791 at aol.com>
Message-ID: <000e01c1258e$a1bebbe0$0affff0a at 5j08601>


The fact that 32 years ago, someone trying to pressure the FCC, through
their elected representatives, to provide a benefit that was not allowed
under the rules at the time, resulted in the FCC closing an unofficial
loophole that was also not allowed under the rules at the time, hardly seems
like a good reason to discourage people from contacting their elected
representatives to pressure the FCC to modify, fix, or eliminate a terrible
system that provides no value to the users and was never requested by them.


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