Re: [AMRadio] BPL and the ARRL

2008-07-19 Thread sbjohnston
The League doesn't have to do everything my, way of course, - I was just holding the organization up to the standard of my imaginary "perfect organization". A friend of mine offered an excellent explanation of why the change, why the ARRL zeroed-in on just the ham bands in the fight against

Re: [AMRadio] BPL and the ARRL

2008-07-19 Thread Kim Elmore
At 10:38 AM 7/19/2008, you wrote: Kim wrote: This is simply an unfair assertion. It is not the ARRL's job to be the Omniscient Spectrum Protector. Most of the spectrum is not the Amateur's to protect. I disagree. I asserted that the League has changed its role, and speculated on reasons th

Re: [AMRadio] BPL and the ARRL

2008-07-19 Thread Peter Markavage
Excellent response Kim. I also agree that, as a member of the ARRL, I want the ARRL to focus their resources, energies, and monies in protecting the amateur radio spectrum. If the FCC wants to trash the rest of the usable spectrum with BPL, including those used by other agencies in their family,

Re: [AMRadio] BPL and the ARRL

2008-07-19 Thread sbjohnston
Kim wrote: This is simply an unfair assertion. It is not the ARRL's job to be the Omniscient Spectrum Protector. Most of the spectrum is not the Amateur's to protect. I disagree. I asserted that the League has changed its role, and speculated on reasons that might have happened - not that t

Re: [AMRadio] BPL and the ARRL

2008-07-19 Thread EdwMullin
In a message dated 7/18/2008 10:26:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Steve WD8DAS writes: >i find it very interesting how the ARRL has changed the nature of their > > >It started out as a worthy fight against yet another RFI problem from >devices that aren't supposed to radiate. Over time their

Re: [AMRadio] BPL and the ARRL

2008-07-18 Thread Thomas Adams
At 09:49 PM 7/18/2008, Kim Elmore wrote: This is simply an unfair assertion. It is not the ARRL's job to be the Omniscient Spectrum Protector. Most of the spectrum is not the Amateur's to protect. If the Government allows an activity that trashes its own spectrum, it's their problem, not the AR

Re: [AMRadio] BPL and the ARRL

2008-07-18 Thread Kim Elmore
This is simply an unfair assertion. It is not the ARRL's job to be the Omniscient Spectrum Protector. Most of the spectrum is not the Amateur's to protect. If the Government allows an activity that trashes its own spectrum, it's their problem, not the ARRL's. If the Government allows activity t

Re: [AMRadio] BPL and the ARRL

2008-07-18 Thread sbjohnston
I find it very interesting how the ARRL has changed the nature of their challenge to BPL. It started out as a worthy fight against yet another RFI problem from devices that aren't supposed to radiate. Over time their effort has "morphed" into a drive to get BPL operators to notch out the ha

[AMRadio] BPL and the ARRL

2008-07-18 Thread Bob Peters
I know that I will get hit upside the head but to you guys that say ARRL does nothing for Ham Radio Read on!!! Not only did ARRL get the BPL stopped but got most of the money back from the FCCYour TAX dollars back to a good cause LOL The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Col