Dwight Stewart wrote:

"Mike Coslo" wrote:

N2EY wrote:

(snip) Is that bad? Are you against direct
democracy and polling of those most affected?

(snip) You're avoiding the central issue. I think
you know that if such a poll were actually taken,
you might not like the results. (snip)

Bingo! This issue seems to run along "party lines".
I'm just about certain that the more non-amateurs
included in any poll, the lower the support for
Morse code, and vice versa.



I think you and Jim are both (perhaps intentionally) missing the point.

Well, I don't know if disagreeing with the point is intentionally
"missing it" but okay.


This issue is not limited to just the ham radio community. The frequencies
we use don't belong just to us - they belong to the entire country (all
Americans).

If you want to be more precise, they belong to the world.


As such, the FCC has to take all Americans into account when
making the rules and regulations to govern the use of those frequencies, and
the license requirements for those frequencies. Therefore, Hans is right -
if you're going to instead propose some type of poll to help establish what
those license requirements might be, it should include all Americans.

How you gonna educate them? Most people wouldn't have a clue what we
would be talking about. Do you propose an education system without
either Pro or Anti-code bias?

Should this poll include more input altogether, such as business
interests that would probably prefer us pesky hams to just go away?

Would the results of a poll consisting of people who knew nothing about
the ARS be representative of anything.

How are you going to approach anything like a knowledgable poll pool?

- Mike KB3EIA -

"Mike Coslo" wrote:

How you gonna educate them? Most people
wouldn't have a clue what we would be talking
about. Do you propose an education system
without either Pro or Anti-code bias?

(snip)

How are you going to approach anything like
a knowledgable poll pool?


Actually, I'm not proposing anything at all. In my opinion, the FCC is
doing a fine job of regulating the Amateur Radio Service. If someone is
going to propose a poll to influence that, then the poll should take into
account everything the FCC must take into account (that includes all
Americans, not just those currently licensed in a particular radio service).


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

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