[RTTY] Will You Let FCC Kill PACTOR3?

[George Henry]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Laws" <plaws at plaws.net>
To: "RTTY" <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Will You Let FCC Kill PACTOR3?


> On Dec 27, 2007 12:23 PM, Kok Chen <chen at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> RM-11392 pretty much attempts to keep Pactor III in particular, and
>> automatic stations in general, from interfering with keyboard digital
>> modes.  Just MHO, of course.
>
>
> And this would be bad ... why?  Automatic == bad, IMHO, whether it's
> Pactor or RTTY or Morse and as you said, 1500 kHz is plenty of
> bandwidth.  Far from (what word was used?) "stifling"  amateur
> innovation, forcing narrower bandwidth should do just the opposite.
>
> I admit to not clicking through to TFA, but I don't think it's an ARRL
> petition and we all know that the FCC only mangles ARRL proposals.
> :-P
>
> -- 
> Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train!


The message calling it a "terrible" petition was posted by none other than 
Bonnie, KQ6XA, the HFLINK/ALE queen.  Just one more of her self-serving 
paranoid rants.  RM-11392 is only bad if you're one of Bonnie's mindless 
followers....