I think the comment was broader based. Never go to the FCC for anything. They want to be as hands off amateur radio as possible. They expect you to interpret the rules and act accordingly, that is part of what your qualification to hold a licensee is about.
vinceinwaukesha wrote: > I've recently read several digital ops repeatedly ominously state hams should > never ask the FCC about digital issues because the FCCs answer might be > extremely bad for the hobby, aka, never tickle a sleeping dragon. > > This sounds new to me, outside of the digital world, hams constantly pester > the FCC with all kinds of imaginative questions and proposals. Digital is > new to me (well, relatively new, for a 3rd gen ham for twenty years, anyway). > I hear it repeated over and over from some digital hams. So that indicates > there might be a bad story from ye olden days of ham digital regulation. > > All I'm asking for is something like "back in '67 after a perfectly innocent > question about maritime mobile RTTY onair identification, the horrible end > result was radioFAX transmission was temporarily banned because of lack of CW > ids". I'm only bugging you all, because I have no idea what to google for, > once I have a couple keywords I can find the details of the "event" on my own. > > 73 de N9NFB > > >
