[RTTY] ARRL Bandwidth Proposal - FCC Invites Comments

[George Henry]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Subich, W4TV" <k4ik at subich.com>
To: "'George Henry'" <ka3hsw at earthlink.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 2:10 PM
Subject: RE: [RTTY] ARRL Bandwidth Proposal - FCC Invites Comments


>
>> In reality, the only people who could legitimately claim to NEED
>> the decoding software would be a repeater operator whose machine
>> is being used to relay digital transmissions, and the FCC itself.
>
> Absolutely wrong ... the Amateur Service is self (or peer) policing.
> In order to maintain any semblance of self-policing, the decoding
> software is an absolute necessity for any amateur.
>

Still not buying it, Joe...  all that is necessary is to record the 
offending signal & send the recording
to the FCC.  No need to decode it at all.  That's still "self-policing" - 
and it has worked just fine that way
for many years.