From: b.b. on Aug 7, 7:02 am

wrote:

Recently there have been some claims about "what the majority wants" in
regards to FCC NPRMs.

Here's what happened wrt 98-143, the last big restructuring NPRM, and
commenters' views on code testing.

The ARRL's "substantive" poll has come and gone.

WRT98-143 has come and gone.

Best of Luck making your journey to the present.

Jimmie is still stuck in the PAST.

He is so tense he loses his tenses...it should be "what the
majority WANTED"...in the past tense.

As to "what happened [with regard to] NPRM 98-143," that is
all viewable on the FCC ECFS under that Docket number. In
short, there are 2,367 entries there up to and including the
FCC-official cut-off date of 15 January 1995. There are a
total of 2,671 entries under 98-143, some of which are
marked as received as late as 2005! That's indicative of
lots of folks stuck in some kind of Time Warp.

Report and Order 99-412, released in late December of 1999,
made NPRM 98-143 a thing of the past. Once an R&O is
issued, its Notice of Proposed Rule Making is NO LONGER a
notice but an ORDER.

NPRM 98-143 covered MANY different aspects of U.S. amateur
radio regulations BESIDES the morse code test. For an
excellent statistical summation on the ENTIRETY of the
Comments submitted, LeRoy Klose (KC8EPO) did an excellent
job in no less than 4 Exhibits to the FCC plus a Reply to
Comments (15 pages) which is a text tabulation of the
various Commenters, dated 25 and 26 January 1999. In those
it is quite evident that the no-code-test advocates were
the MAJORITY and NOT the minority as Miccolis alleges and
has alleged in past postings here.

FCC 99-412 was released, became LAW for U.S. radio amateurs
and that is that whether morsemen like it or not.

WT Docket 05-235 is about ONE specific change to U.S.
amateur radio regulations: Elimination of Test Element
1 concerning the morse code test required now for a new
(or "upgrade" to) General or Extra class U.S. amateur radio
license. That PAST commentary, ARRL polls, or pipe-dreaming
by morsemen are taken as "present day opinions" is invalid
for the PRESENT.

Jimmie and other rabid morsemen are in deep denial of the
growing desire of those interested in amateur radio to DO
AWAY with the morse code test. That growth has burgeoned
into a MAJORITY, not a minority any longer.

A problem with those in deep denial is that they simply
cannot recognize a public desire which is opposed to their
own self-centered personal desires on retaining some
mythical standards and practices of past times when they
"bought into" those old standards and practices. As a
result we have all that spin doctoring by the morsemen
doing a failing job of keeping archaic standards and
practices alive. They are guilty only of necro-equine
flagellation...i.e., "beating a dead horse."

bet not