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
