Well, you are just ONE BIG argument for more control. The least gov't is
the best gov't, 400 million people need the radio spectrum more than a
handful of hams and the public servants we have hired to the people
business.

Write your congressman today! He will do nothing unless he knows there is a
problem!

Regards,
John

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 07:22:08 -0700, "John Smith"
wrote:

Well, you are just ONE BIG argument for more control.

No, I'm for reasonable control for the greater public good. At least
until people (and your examples aren't helping me to believe it) can
demonstrate that they can handle the responsibility alone. So far, in
every example, less regulation leads to chaos.

The least gov't is the best gov't,

To an extent, I agree. But a total absence of rules and laws is an
extreme that I cannot support.


400 million people need the radio spectrum more than a
handful of hams and the public servants we have hired to the people
business.

Why do 400 million people "need" radio spectrum? What spectrum "needs"
are not currently being addressed?

Ham radio is not an exclusive club. ANY one of those "400 million" are
welcome to join, provided they agree to follow the rules.

Dave
"Sandbagger"
http://home.ptd.net/~n3cvj

You get the question backwards...
Why do these public servants need most of "MY" radio spectrum, I am against
giving the garbage collector more than a couple of chans too...
Hams don't need special treatment, they can share with the rest of the
people... giving them those bits of paper with "Licence" written on it just
confuses 'em and makes 'em feel "special", if they were all that special, we
would spend more and put 'em in "special education classes."
We don't need to design people to fit radios, we need to design radios to
fit people--it is easy to see how that got backwards--back when everyone was
afraid of electricity and radio had a "mysterious" quality I can see how a
bunch of under-educated people set this up--but today things are much
different... We need to shake the hams and FCC out of the rut which has
been established...

I am telling you, "Write, email, fax or otherwise contact your congressman
today!!!"

Regards,
John