[RTTY] ARRL board of Directors meeting this week

[Robert Chudek - K0RC]

It's the fashionable neuvo thought process... /"We need to quickly pass 
this legislation in order that we can find out what's in it."/

73 de Bob - KØRC in MN

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On 1/14/2014 6:12 PM, Tom Osborne wrote:
> I was looking back in the September 2004 QST and found an interesting
> tid-bit.
>
> In the 'It Seems to Us' column, K1ZZ talked about bandwidth.  Among other
> stuff, he said "Despite these difficulties, and with the admonitation 'if it
> isn't broke, don't fix it', firmly in mind, in July of 2002 the ARRL Board
> concluded that the time had come to regulate amateur subbands by bandwidth,
> rather than mode"
>
> But, what I though was really interesting, he went on to say, "The Board
> reviewed a draft petition for rule making at its January 2004 meeting and
> asked the Executive Committee to contiue polishing the draft.  The Executive
> Commitee reviewed a revised draft at its March meeting and found that a few
> corrections still needed to be made, but took the important step of deciding
> that a synopsis and explanation of the petition should be made available to
> ARRL members before (in italics) it is filed with the FCC."
>
> Kinda wonder what happened to this proposal back in '04 and why we didn't
> get a 'synopsis and explanation before the petition was filed' brought to
> the members this time.
>
> If you get a chance to read the whole thing, it is pretty interesting.  73
> Tom W7WHY
>
>
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