K4YZ wrote:
N9OGL wrote:
Any amateur radio station can run an information bulletin. My pet pea
with it is that the thin line between information bulletin and
broadcasting.
"peeve"
There's no "thin line".
It's either an "information bulletin" or it's broadcasting.
such a inspired response by Stevie well done truely well done
the rules are vauge even you have admitted that
An Information Bulletin is a message directed to amateur
radio operators consisting of subject matter of interest to amateur
radio. Many amateur's has taken it to be "a short, to the point
newscast" and that Information bulletins cannot be opinionated.
Once it's "opinonated" it stops being an "information bulletin"
and becomes an editorial. Editorials are broadcasting.
according to whom?
First
there is nothing in the rules that state an information bulletin cannot
be opinionated;
Sure there is. Right where it says "information bulletin".
As soon as it's "opinionated" it stops being an "information
bulletin" and becomes an editorial. Editorials are broadcasting.
says who?
then Arrl is certain braodcasting at times by expressing opinions on
the air
nor any rules that state an information bulletin has to be a newscast.
But an information bulletin has to have INFORMATION in it.
indeed. Your point?
Once tainted by editorialization, it's no longer objective.
which means nothing
Nothing in the rules says anything on the air must be objective
If there is a rule feel free to let me know which rule.
"97.1369 When in doubt about what constitutes an "information
bulletin" as opposed to a "broadcast", anything Todd McDaugherty says
is wrong."
whose doubt Your?
As for short and to the point the FCC in a warning letter to K1MAN
stated that there was no time limit on information bulletins as a
matter of fact a club station that runs a information bulletin or a
code practice transmission 40 hours a week (that's 8 hr. a day) may be
compensated (47 CFR 97.113=A9). The FCC on their website has also stated
that it is up to the station transmitting the bulletin to determine if
it is amateur interest.
And one has to be relatively objective in what constitutes
"amateur interest".
where is Objectivity mentioned
cuting rant
Which brings me to the FCC, the FCC is
prohibited from controling the content of any station, they are also
prohibited from regulation or condition shall be promulgated or fixed
by the Commission which shall interfere with the right of free speech
by means of radio communication. (47 USC 326) (this however doesn't
apply to obscene and indecent material)
Which in this case does not apply.
The only "content" issues were Baxter's pecuniary use of Amateur
Radio. Those are clearly within the FCC's purview to limit.
So if one of the key points of
the NAL was the content of his transmission it has to be asked if the
FCC violated section 326 of the Communication Act.
So ask. But ask the right people.
the courts has also
stated that the FCC is prohibited from making content based rules.
Again...You keep avoiding the fact that the FCC C L E A R L Y is
allowed to prohibit commerical use of the Amateur Service.
=20
cuting ranting
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