In article , Mike Coslo
writes:

And yet....... while expulsion can be obtained so easily in one matter,

there is an extreme amount of slack granted for "unofficial" positions
on other matters regarding amateur radio! Why doesn't NCI have a
position on anything else?

Because it's a one-purpose organization.

Some years back, there was a petition by a VHF group to change the rules
slightly. As you know, the lowest 100 kHz of 6 and 2 meters are CW only, and
the rest of amateur VHF/UHF allows all authorized modes everywhere.

Folks in that and other VHF/UHF groups are "weak signal" fans, and had noticed
increased QRM from local FM simplex folks. They'd be trying to work some SSB DX
on, say, 144.200 and would find themselves buried by local FM simplex ops who
had simply dropped down there from a repeater. Note that the typical ham FM
signal is maybe 5-6 times wider than an SSB signal and you'll begin to see the
problem.

So the VHF group proposed eliminating the CW-only 100 kHz, and instead setting
up the lowest 300 kHz of 6 and 2, plus about the same amount just above 432
MHz, as "narrow band preserves" - no modes wider than 3 kHz allowed.

NCI wrote a strongly worded opposition to that proposal. The rallying cry was
"no setasides for legacy modes!!" (SSB is a "legacy mode").

Now of course anyone can comment to FCC. And there can be an honest
disagreement about subbands-by-mode. But it was really odd - N0BK would say
surreal - to see such comments by a one-purpose group on a subject that had
absolutely nothing to do with code testing, and which involved bands completely
open to Technicians.

After having this discrepancy pointed out, NCI took more of a one-purpose
stance, and has not gotten involved in any issues other than "drop Element 1"

He is simply manufacturing an

Once that happens, NCI has stated
that it will dissolve, cease to exist as a special interest entity.


Perhaps it will, perhaps it won't.

Maybe this is the point for another poll, Jim?

To what purpose? ;-)

What is its exact membership?

Always growing!

Of course!

73 de Jim, N2EY