So, we are to gather from this that the FCC is saying to everyone -- go out and do whatever you want and unless "someone" complains we don't care?
That is contrary to the nature of bureaucracy and bureaucrats. Bureaucrats are focused on avoidance of conflict and expansion of power. Only so long as they believe the ARRL can make more of a nuisance of themselves than other Ham groups or individual Hams they will ignore the bad conduct of the ARRL. The question goes to who and how many need to complain to the FCC about the ARRL to force the FCC to slap the hands of the ARRL. The FCC cares about being respected so they are not harassed. The ARRL has been making themselves increasingly dislikable at the FCC, their latest attacks on the FCC Chairman a case in point. There is likely to be more rather than less of a friendly ear at the FCC right now to slap down the ARRL than in a long time. Oh, BTW, given the elected officials, celebrities, and astronauts who are licensed Hams - combined with all of the good press re. the value of Hams in disasters - it would not take much to make the FCC bureaucrats very uncomfortable were they to attack Ham radio in general. > Only from the League's lawyer, silly. That's as good as it gets. > > Anyway, does anyone really want a response directly from the FCC, > for Cat's sake?! > >> Attached is the response we got from the FCC via the ARRL: >> In effect, it states as long as nobody complains, we (the FCC) >> don't really care what you do! -- Thanks! & 73, doc, KD4E ... in sunny & warm Florida :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thank our brave soldiers this season: http://www.letssaythanks.com/Home1024.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ URL: bibleseven (dot) com
