This is from the minutes of the July 2015 meeting of the ARRL Board of Directors: 39. On motion of Mr. Frenaye, seconded by Mr. Isely, the following resolution was ADOPTED: Whereas, there exist unacc
Ed, Please thank the board. This has been a long time problem. Good luck to all of you with this plan. Tom W0IVJ 39. On motion of Mr. Frenaye, seconded by Mr. Isely, the following resolution was ADOP
Yes, thank them for the entire RFI group! ARRL action can and does get some utilities to respond properly, but it sometimes also takes internal politics to nudge it along. 73, de ed -K0iL Ed, Please
Ed, Please thank the board for me as well! This is timely as well, now that Oregon has just approved recreational use and growing, of marijuana I expect the lights will become an even larger issue fo
Let's hope this doesn't fall on deaf ears in our Federal Government like so many other things. Bruce , K0SON Sent from my iPad _______________________________________________ RFI mailing list RFI@con
I'd suggest that hams send an email to their directors, letting them know how they feel about the resolution. I personally am glad, as a ham and as HQ staff, and pleased that MY director made the mot
More important, write to your congressman demanding that they 1) pass legislation requiring the FCC to enforce their own Rules and 2) appropriate the funds so that FCC has both staff and other resour
Until the FCC's leadership and mission are clarified; do they serve partisan values, private for-profit interests, or are they truly public servants who enforce the law equally & are vastly more tran
Look at their stand on net neutrality, how they fast tracked LightSquared next to satellite down links http://www.lightsquared.com/press-room/press-releases/lightsquared-submits-nationwide-wireless-b
Time for a re-think. That means toothless FCC. THAT'S a HUGE part of our problem, and it's how we got here. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ RFI mailing list RFI@contestin
There are those who have said they are not interested in hearing my political view of the FAA but that view determines whether the FCC will even consider a note from the ARRL. I sincerely hope they n
You missed the qualifier: IF they first remove the partisan politics and crony capitalist bias & function as proper servants of the people - then talk about money - otherwise it's like feeding wild b
The FCC can and does have teeth any time it chooses. It has issued fines again and again in support of whatever agenda exists What partisan politics reason would the FCC have for not taking action on
I'm not saying we should not expect government agencies to do the jobs we pay them to do - but where there's a history of wrong priorities (and sometimes worse) the wrong answer is more funding. We t
Here we go again with all this partisan whining...which has no real place here! From: "qrv@kd4e.com" <qrv@kd4e.com> To: rfi@contesting.com Sent: Saturday, August 1, 2015 6:49 AM Subject: Re: [RFI]
Read again, carefully this time, there was not a word of partisanship - in fact, what I wrote was about the removal of partisanship. We must not increase funding to, and have confidence in, any agenc
Surprisingly, the answer to that question is often "yes." Here are just a few examples: Years back, a company called Phonex made wireless modem jacks that operated on 3.53 MHz. They were carrier-cur
I don't remember the dates , Ed may remember, several of these boxes interfered with me working a Vanuatu NSRC dxpedition, years after the "recall." I heard phones calls clearly, in the ham band, rec
Not always. Back in , I believe it was the 1990s Chrysler had a V-6 in a new line of cars. (Cab forward?) The computers in those cars from a block distant could over power our repeater just 2 miles d
That it went away quietly with no fanfare raises questions. You almost have to go to the pilot groups to find out the real details. "LightSquared ground based transmitters to interfere with GPS" as s