Opinion: A belief or conclusion held with confinfidence but not
substantiated by proof (2) A judgement based on special KNOWLEDGE (3) A
judgement or estimation

Again nowhere in the FCC rules and regulations does it state that amateur's
can not be opinionated. The rules state the"information bulletin" has to be
of interest to the amateur radio community. I know amateur who run progams
on ATV about what antenna are the best to uses at what frequency....that's
also an opinion too. The reason there is no statement about no opinions on
the amateur band is as I stated before your getting into both a First
Amendment issue and content control issue which the FCC can't regulate under
Section 326. I've read on both on here and on other message board and it
seem that there is a HUGE misunderstanding of what an information bulletin
is and until there is a official statement by the FCC to where ALL amateur's
get the message this problem will never be solved.

Todd N9OGL



"Dee Flint" wrote in message
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"Todd Daugherty" wrote in message
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Where in the FCC rules and regulations does it state that it has to be a
news bulletin? I think that's where Amateurs have a misunderstanding.
The
term in the FCC rules and regulations state:

97.3(a)(25) Information bulletin. A message directed only to amateur
operators consisting solely of subject matter of direct interest to the
amateur service.

And you must also look at

97.111(b)(6) Transmissions necessary to disseminate information
bulletins;

Let look at the bottom one first. "Transmissions necessary to
disseminate
information bulletins" now we all know what transmission means at lease
I
hope you all do so lets look at the ending section of that part
"disseminate
information bulletins". Disseminate according to The American Heritage
Dictionary disseminate means to spread or to be spread. Information
according to the same dictionary means "Knowledge from study or
experience.
(2)Knowledge of an event or situation; Intelligence. (3) A collection of
facts or data (4) Informing or being informed; communication of
Knowledge.
Lastly a bulletin is according to American Heritage Dictonary is (1) A
printed or broadcast statement on a matter of public interest (2) A
periodical, esp. one published by an organization or society
So with all we can state that 97.111(b)(6) means in layman term A radio
siganal necessary to spread knowledge as a statement on matters of
amateur
interest something on that lines no where in the FCC rules and
regulations
does it state it has to be NEWS only that it has to be information
consisting solely of subject matter of direct interest to the amateur
service. After reading stuff off of not only this newsgroup but other
amateur message boards I understand that many amateur's think that a
information bulletin is a news bulletin but again nowhere in the FCC
rules
does it state that.


Granted I should have said information rather than news. However opinion
pieces are not information.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE