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Subject: Shutdown Protest--From PHX...
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From: N7MRP@N7MRP.AZ.USA.NA
To  : GATE@WB7TPY.AZ.USA.NA


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Hello All,
     I am the Director of the Association that decided to pull the plug over
the labor day weekend.  I must make some corrections which were entailed in 
a bulletin to the local area....I'll point out below...
     
>Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:17:01 GMT
>From: spsgate!mogate!newsgate!usenet@uunet.uu.net
>Subject: Shutdown protest??
>To: packet-radio@ucsd.edu
>
>Greetings all...
>
>There was a message on the local PBBS's that one of the groups in our area
>(Phoenix, AZ) is going to shut down all their BBS's, nodes, etc. over
>the Labor Day weekend to protest the ARRL position on unattended
>forwarding. They seem to think this will "send a strong message to the
>ARRL".
>
>Seems kinda stupid to me. Seems like they will be only proving that the
>world can get along just fine without packet forwarding, which I would 
>think is exactly the opposite of what they want to show.
>
>Is this a widespread protest this weekend or just an isolated group?
>
>73....    Mark   KG7JL

The purpose of the Association shutting down the systems were for 3 of
the following most important reasons:

1. NOT TO PUNISH the ARRL-  Yet to "WAKE UP" the end user that sits back and
takes the wait and see attitude until it is too late...Well folks,  this is
exactly what happened....The ARRL put out a questionaire in the QST and hardly
any of the normal users of such networks responded...even worse,  some of our
STA folks didn't respond....We MUST TELL the ARRL what we want....We were aware
of the ARRL's change of mind before the "blackout",  however,  we figured that
if we decided to not do it,  well the end user will most likely say "well looks
like it's under control,  nothing for me to do now"  I must personally say
"WRONG"...This is just like our political government...If we DON'T VOTE we 
don't get what we want!

2. This was more of a simulation as to what would happen if our STA stations
were placed under the constraint that the ARRL digital committie has proposed.
So with a dent in that traffic flow,  alternate land SLOW 1200 BAUD routes must
be taken to get to that DX DESTINATION....Often being either lost or taking 
several days to arrive...

3. To show OUR SUPPORT TO HF STA SYSOPS who work to see traffic MOVE!

So far reaction has been positive....I must honestly say,  there are those that
still think we were wrong,  however we are in America and your entitled to your
own opinion...In the future I certainly hope that we don't have to come across
things like this again....

and just to close and say again "THIS BLACKOUT WAS NOT TO PUNISH THE ARRL OR
MAKE ANY STATEMENT TO THEM---Simply for the END-USER!"

73 de Dan N7MRP

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