FCC Seeks Comments on Impediements to Amateur Radio Communications
OK gang! Those of you who've complained, or at least been concerned, about antenna restrictions and other unreasonable restrictions that others have attempted to place on our Amateur Radio operations... who've been less than happy with the FCC's positions on such matters post-PRB-1... now's your chance!
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DA 12-523, Released April 2, 2012
COMMISSION SEEKS COMMENT ON EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS BY AMATEUR
RADIO AND IMPEDIMENTS TO AMATEUR RADIO COMMUNICATIONS
GN Docket No. 12-91
Comment Date: May 17, 2012
By this Public Notice, the Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau seek comment on the uses and capabilities of Amateur Radio Service communications in emergencies and disaster relief. As set forth below, comment is sought on issues relating to the importance of emergency Amateur Radio Service communications and on impediments to enhanced Amateur Radio Service communications. Stakeholder entities and organizations, include the Amateur Radio, emergency response, and disaster communications communities, are particularly encouraged to submit comments.
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Rele...A-12-523A1.pdf
ANNOUNCING the 19th Annual WASHFest 2014, The South Hills Hamfest, Sunday, 23 February 2014.
Located at the Castle Shannon VFD Memorial Hall, State Route 88 (Library Road) at Grove Road, Castle Shannon PA., ~ 10 minutes from downtown Pittsburgh.
[From Downtown, Take the Liberty Bridge across the Mon, go through the Liberty Tunnel, then turn onto SR 51 South to SR 88]
Talk-in on N3SH/R 146.955 - and N3FB/R 443.650 + (131.8 PL).
See you there!