N9OGL wrote:
Food, caps, tee-shirts, food, and bottle water is one thing, but money
is another. My point in all of this is K1MAN was fined by the FCC for
Pecuniary Interest and now the ASSHOLE RADIO RELAY LEAGUE is going to
do the samething. What go for one person should apply for all. The MAIN
problem I see here is the definition of the term noncommercial, and
seems that there is two tems on what noncommercial means.

I'll have agree wihth you where I think you realy go of the tracks is
saying there are 2 standards, there are far more than that. the rules
are enforced in arbitary manners based on personalities not on the
public interests

The ARRL can do most of what it wants becuase of its sheer size, and
the facts it has the money and legal forces to make a better fight of
it

The FCC will try and make examples of those that are not liked like
K1MAN who by the best accounts I have heard sounds like a jerk, not
crimal to my mind Unless the ARRL is too but not a nice guy.

The danger of such tactics is the camels nose effect, and like the
Nazi's you start with folks that are not liked and then you move on to
others and still others

Not bashing Bush for this or Clinton or... but the general creeping
influence of the people truely runing the country , the nameless
faceless breaucrat, what Asimov called the "Greys"

Todd N9OGL