Topband: Fwd: ARRL Board meets next week - I'm looking for input

[Cecil]

All excellent points and very well stated Larry....

Cecil
K5DL

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> On Jul 11, 2015, at 6:48 AM, Larry Burke <wi5a at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> This issue is actually bigger than the farce it is making of the ARRL awards
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> When you write your Division Director you might also ask him "at what point
> will the League consider 'for rent' commercial remotes -- which are already
> in operation today -- an affront to the amateur spectrum?" At what point
> will these stations be indistinguishable from common carrier networks, which
> are highly regulated in the US? If Verizon Wireless wakes up one day and
> realizes they have much of the infrastructure in place (towers, internet
> connections, backup generators, billing systems) would the League be
> receptive to them dotting both coasts with remotes? At what point will the
> amateur community finally object? The barriers to entry into this game are
> really not that high for the right player. The more "commercial" the Amateur
> Service becomes, the more vulnerable it becomes at spectrum allocation time.
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> You might also ask your Director how the League's support of commercial
> remotes is consistent with their very prominent push of HR 1301 and S 1685
> (The Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015). Why would lawmakers want to provide
> relief from antenna restrictions if all a ham has to do is sign up for
> RemoteHamRadio.com or similar to get on the air? Years of ARRL efforts in
> this arena can disappear pretty quickly, and it wouldn't take a very bright
> lobbyist for an association of HOAs to figure this out. All they'd have to
> do is point to the RemoteHamRadio.com ad on the page facing the April 2015
> editorial in QST.... the editorial that announces the January Board decision
> and arguably supports commercial remotes.  
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> Larry K5RK
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