From: tcs@ll.mit.edu (Tom Sefranek)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Re: 430mhz band under th
Date: 29 Dec 92 15:36:35 GMT
Reply-To: tcs@ll.mit.edu (Tom Sefranek)
Organization: "Group	47"

In article <8220@lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
|> In article <725556607.AA00000@therose.pdx.com> Larry.Lund@p12.f79.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Larry Lund) writes:
|> >I know if I wanted to transmit on a particular frequency, and it was a
|> >private/closed repeater that, that would not stop me. When I got my license
|> >back in 87' there was nothing in the rules that I remember telling me I was
|> >only allowed to tramsmit on certain frequencies between 440-450 Sorry charlie
|> >I ain't buying it! 
|> 
|> OK, fine...I'd suggest, then, the next time you're in Houston, that you
|> transmit on 448.925. That way, I can hear you interfere with conversations you
|> have no intention of participating in, and I'll call the FCC myself.
|> 
|> Yes, you can transmit on a repeater's input; no, that doesn't give you the
|> right to interfere with others.
|> -- 
|> Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
|> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
|>  "Brought to you by the letters O, S, and by the number 2." -- Mike Levis

Now this reply from Jay has me heart sick.  Jay, don't mis-understand, 
I have no problem with your well meaning intentions, and I know your in the
co-ordination process down there....

But when I hear yet another "authority" saying "I'll call the FCC...", it
undermines your creditability.  Jay you know better!
(I usually reply privately, but this is BAD publicity and very bad form!)
The FCC doesn't need whining Hams who can't negotiate among themselves a simple
peaceful solution.  And they are certainly NOT going to take action based on
a "call".

Look at what your saying!!!  I fly into Houston, "Thank God I'm in Texas".
And I listen on a frequency (Simplex), I hear nothing,  I call my friend in
Texas, (Yes, I do have friends in Texas.) and he finds me at the airport.
I've heard nothing but my friend on the frequency.  You can BET a complaint
issued against me for being on that frequency (as interference) will be
dismissed.  Your saying that my knowing that this is a repeater input
frequency is an AUTOMATIC guarantee I can receive the OUTPUT of your repeater!
Or that I MUST monitor another frequency I have no intention of using.

I understand the principle,  it's the hard nose, assume guilt before reason,
that I have and will always have, a problem with.  Now for the audience,
Jay is a hard working pressured VOLUNTEER, and someone has hit his HOT button,
so be kind!  He means and infact DOES well!

The ONLY complaint likely to be addressed by the FCC is a deliberate,
continuous, malcontent who is exercising his/her God given American right to be
on that frequency, with NO reguard for who else is on it too.

A prosperous New Year to all.

(I have to add, we finished this years training with 113 New Hams!!!)
(Of the 76 No-Code Techs, 54 have added code, 32 have become Advanced, 7
Extras!)   Jay, The system is working here!



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