Re: [digitalradio] Bandwidth and Olivia

[Danny Douglas]

May I ask just how removing the telegraphy licensing barrier will go a long way to reducing the burden on the FCC?  They don't write the test, they don't give the test and they don't score the test.  I am starting to feel that people simply don't like "rules to live by" and it has nothing to do with limited resources.  In that case, lets get idiotic and just do away with things like speed limits - we can always get out of the way of the guy flying at 90mph down our two lane road.  Speed limits are for not only the safety of the driver, but of others on the road; passengers, pedestrians etc.  Radio rules are not only for the one user, but for everyone else on the bands as well.  Reduce the rules, and you have the pigs ruling the roost, to mix metaphors.     ----- Original Message ----- From: Dr. Howard S. White To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 5:10 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Bandwidth and Olivia Mark:   Very perceptive of you... in the long run, the FCC has a lot of better things to do than spend their limited resources continuing the excessive regulation of the Ham Bands... Removing the Telegraphy licensing barrier and reducing excessive Ham Regulation will go a long way to reducing the burden on the FCC and many of their pronouncements over the past few years show that is the way they are leaning.....  So maybe the FCC might take one giant step and bring Ham Radio into a 21st Century Regulatory Regime in one broad stroke...   __________________________________________________________ Howard S. White Ph.D. P. Eng., VE3GFW/K6  ex-AE6SM  KY6LA Website: www.ky6la.com "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished" "Ham Antennas Save Lives - Katrina, 2003 San Diego Fires, 911"     ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Miller To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 2:11 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Bandwidth and Olivia At 03:03 PM 11/27/2005, you wrote: >Even if the ARRL adopts the more restrictive ARRL model ... I predict that >in the longer run we will ultimately get to the Canadian Model.... If I was forced to make a wager, that is where my money would go.  We will have to see how the telegraphy testing rule pans out.  That will tell us what type of regulatory environment the suites the FCC.  They have refused to mode segregate 160 meters, they refused to set a maximum bandwidth for telephony, and they want to drop telegraphy proficiency testing.  I think a trend is starting to show.  I would expect some sort of omnibus re-alignment of part 97. 73, Mark N5RFX No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.8/184 - Release Date: 11/27/2005 Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to   telnet://208.15.25.196/ Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ Looking for digital mode software?  Check the quick commerical free link below http://www.obriensweb.com/digimodes.html YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "digitalradio" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.