He publishes a newsletter aimed at amateur radio operators, he sells examination preparation materials, including Morse Code tapes. The League points out that its W1AW daily HF code practice sessions, which Maia's proposal would ban, are available free of charge. The League calls Maia's petition ill conceived and unthinkable. And it sez the comments strongly support the timely dissemination of amateur radio information, such as the declaration of voluntary communications emergencies by the F.C.C. and information about disaster relief communications. Among the comments filed in response to Maia's petition, support for the idea is minimal.
Opposition is overwhelming.
For those reasons, the League sez, Fred Maia's proposal should be dismissed without further delay. By the way. Some 537 comments were received by the F.C.C. on RM-8626. Almost all opposed the Maia scheme. The ARRL notes that this is an extraordinarily large number of comments in response to any rule making petition.