N2EY wrote:

In article , "Bill Sohl"
writes:

1)The FCC won't respond to anything filed before congress has ratified the
new treaty (no point approaching congress, though, as that part will be a
rubber stamp excercise);

And even if congress failed to ratify it would change nothing
in the ITU treaty. In fact, if congress doesn't
ratify, then the USA would simply NOT be a participant
in the treaty. The former treaty is, as of 7/5/03, null and void.

I don't think that's necessarily true, Bill. But it's academic - has the USA
ever not ratified a revised ITU-R treaty?

2)Everyone and his dog will then file petitions to restructure the Amateur
service. You could file one too;

Maybe. Time will tell.

And since "concensus" is a term totally foreign to ham radio, Bill Cross himself,
the big stick at FCC for ham radio, the guy who makes all the rules that are
rubberstamped by the other otherwise-occupied staff, will make the new rules for
us, himself. He said so at Dayton a couple years ago.