HamRadioNow: Riley Returns, plus more Digital from the DCC

K8CPA · Nov 30, 2014

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Outstanding speech. This part makes me a sad ham however. I don't understand. Furthermore if you think you can do this and NOT GET FOUND if they decide to, well you are dead wrong.

"it's the problem of people firing off nasty emails, not only to Laura, but to the enforcement bureau chief, and to the chairman, about amateur radio situations that they think the FCC should attack. I'm talking about horrible emails, threatening emails, threatening to the degree that quite often the security office gets involved. We've got to stop this, it's giving Amateur Radio a black eye. Some are so threatening that the security staff might not let Laura travel, and you notice that she doesn't travel much, partly because of the budget, but partly because of this problem. There are obscene, threatening and stupid emails by people who are hiding behind the anonymity of the internet. I'm sure state senators get them, US senators get them. But when it comes in specifically to the Enforcement Bureau about an Amateur complaint, it's bad for all of us. It's giving some people in the Commission a bad taste in their mouth about Amateur Radio. They sort of understand that they are sent by fruitcakes, but amateurs are very quick to fire off an email about a complaint or about a situation they hear on the bands, and they don't know the full background of it. This is a time when we are hyper-sensitive about security issues."
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Yeah, No kidding. It's only a hobby and there is a thing called a VFO, it's the biggest knob on the radio. besides all that, threatening a woman with children; for simply doing her job? Textbook insanity that is...

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