On 6/12/2010 5:37 AM, Jeffrey Angus wrote:
On 6/11/2010 9:40 PM, Paul W. Schleck wrote:
I found it in the FCC's Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS):

Thank you Paul.

I'm kind of at a loss to see what his point was.

Part of it feels like this:
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."

Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899 ;-)

And part of this feels like a kind of end run to include
Morse code as part of the basis and purpose of the ARS.

Personally, I think it's the latter.

"through preservation of the history of the radio art"

I think the FCC did the right thing.

Jeff-1.0
wa6fwi


If you are saying you did not see the point of the petittioner.. clearly
the FCC fully agrees with you.

I would like to see the petittion once again. (I likely saw it long ago
but not recently)

I do see folks saying things (IN OTHER AREAS) like "This law was written
in 19xx and has not been modified since" (Fact is, the last time I read
that it was a law where we got updates every month when I was working,
no I won't say what law it was cause only a couple paragraphs apply to
Amateur Radio, and, I might add, both got updated)

Sometimes a law does not get changed,,, Because the "original" version
was very well written and there is no need to change it.

In the case of the purpose of Amateur radio.. I do not see as it has
changed.. Refined a bit, Emphasis moved from one thing to another
(Within the original purpose statement) yes,,, but changed enough to
need a re-wirte.. I doubt that will ever happen.