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From: rb@ccivax.UUCP (rex ballard)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio,net.ham-radio.packet
Subject: Re: FCC awards pink ticket for BBS
Message-ID: <421@ccivax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 18:58:11 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 20 18:58:11 1986
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Organization: CCI Telephony Systems Group,  Rochester NY
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Summary: The FCC is "selling the park"

As I recall, AT&T attempted to get the FCC to outlaw phone patches
on the basis that the established common carrier was loosing
the revenue from the long distance connection.

A citation such as this does not necessarily mean that the final
word has been given, but it is not a good sign.  It seems like
the FCC has taken a profound change in it's role as protector of
a public commodity.  The emphasis seems to be on commercialization
of the "Ether" (tells you how long I've been a ham).

I personally see this as being identical to selling national park
land.

Of course, when looking at the "Mobile Homes" in the national parks,
and the "Store Bought Ham Gear" in some ham shacks, I wonder if these
actions are not justified.  The last "Home Brew" rig I built wouldn't
be usable today (no FCC certification).  As for "advancing the state
of the art", except for a few "advancements" in the digital communications
fields, the last big contributions of ham radio were "SSB", and "SSTV".

I keep wondering how long it will be before "CB" bbs's start showing
up.

If we don't use it, we'll loose it.