Todd Daugherty wrote:

Content Control
I had recently started broadcasting my N9OGL Show on 28.555 MHz at 9.00 pm
CST. On my first broadcast I talked about content control in the amateur
radio service. Amateur Radio is on the eve of dying;

You've provided no evidence that amateur radio is dying.

The reason it's dying
isn't because the lack of amateurs in the service. No the reason it's dying
is content control. Amateur radio is dying because amateur's are under the
belief that the FCC can control the content of an amateur station.

No one from the FCC has stopped by to tell me that the content of my
amateur radio station is under investigation. Since I've come back to
the U.S., the content of my amateur radio station has been steadily
increasing. Even my XYL has given up on trying to control the content.


As a
matter of fact Mr. Hollingsworth of the FCC wanted me to let him know when I
was going on the air so he QSL me. The QSL he's talking about is in the form
of a warning letter, a C&D, NOV, or a NOF. Section 326 of the Communication
Act of 1934 is a statue that prohibits the FCC from controlling the content
of ANY radio stations. It also prohibits the FCC from creating rules and
regulations which would suppress free speech on the radio.

There are any number of things which can "control" your right to free
speech. There are regulatory things, like the fact that amateur radio
isn't a broadcast service and like the fact the Commission has obscenity
regs. You can't say things which will incite panic. Your civil right
to free speech becomes abridged where it infringes upon the rights of
another. You seemed to have missed those facts.

The FCC of course
under other rules and regulations can regulate obscene and indecent
material. Now there are many out there including the ARRL who believe that
this rule doesn't apply to amateur radio.

Let me get this straight--You think that the ARRL believes the FCC has
no power to regulate obscene and indecent speech? You surely can't
believe that.

It of course is not true, this
statue along with all the other sections of the Communication Act apply in
one shape or another to amateur radio and the FCC.

Now you're saying that the FCC has oversight for regulating obscenity
and indency propagated BY the FCC? Where does the "statue" come into
play?

(snip)

For Amateur radio
to grow, Amateur's are going to have to adapt to new idea's.

Those apostrophes are tricky, huh?

The problem is
the ARRL, their members and the FCC which tries to suppress or control the
content.

So the ARRL and their running dog members are in collusion with the FCC
to control content?

So I'm broadcasting in an amateur band at night when it's not in
use. Big fricking deal at lease I using it.

I "using" it too. Truck drivers are sometimes using it too. Did you
realize that broadcasting is prohibited by radio amateurs whether it is
during the day or during the night. Did you realize that the 10m band
during solar maxima can be open all night to various parts of the
world? Did you know that there are propagation modes in which 10m can
open during the night over a distance even during periods of solar
minima?

I mean so what if broadcasting
information to the amateur radio community which may be a small value to the
Amateurs.

If broadcasting by radio amateurs is illegal and of small value, why do
it?

So what if I'm on there for a hour and half voice my opinion about
problems and issues in amateur radio.

The "so what" has already been addressed. Are you trying to get your
license yanked?

At lease I have a opinion and I'm not
some drone of the ARRL who believes everything the ARRL says.

I'm a life member of the ARRL and I don't believe in everything done by
the ARRL. Then again, I don't broadcast my views on the ham bands. Do
you think the ARRL will do anything differently based upon your illegal
broadcasts?

That's the
reason I'm broadcasting to voice my opinion's about issues in amateur radio,
to let people hear what I'm thinking instead of that idle dribble we call
ham radio.

That's the spirit, Todd. Give Mr. Hollingsworth all the ammunition he
needs for yanking that license. Amateur radio needs more guys like you.
No more "idle dribble"!

I'm a strong believer in free speech and I believe there are
problems in amateur radio and feel my voice needs to be heard.

So why are you broadcasting on a dead band?

Dave K8MN
"If Todd broadcasts on a dead band, is there a sound?"