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"Bill Sohl" wrote in message
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In article ,
(Len Over 21) writes:
Amateur radio isn't the military. It isn't a workplace. It isn't a
guild
or craft or union or association of professionals.
Which means that the methods and standards of the military, the
workplace,
the
guild/craft/union or professional associations don't apply to amateur
radio.
Even under such an argument, the role and purpose of amateur
test requirements must be justified by more than just tradition, values
and
other vague and subjective aspects.
With all due respect, Bill,
Isn't that statement really a subjective opinion? I mean, when you get
right down to it, almost everything in the test process is there or is
not there because of someone's subjective opinion that it's
"reasonable" or "necessary".
If you feel that way, so be it.
It's a HOBBY.
It's an avocation. Meaning it's done for its own sake.
But however someone chooses to describe it, does the fact that amateur
radio
isn't the military, a workplace, a guild or craft or union or
association
of
professionals mean that there is no need for amateur radio to have
values,
and
standards? That seems to be your main message here.
The message is the same as that stated by the FCC in R&) for 98-143...
Rules must be justified.
(SNIP)
Sure - that's the easy part. The tough part is "what constitutes
justification?"
Well we have (on code testing) pretty good knowledge as
to what doesn't constitute justification.
And the point I was making still remains valid. Since amateur radio is
not the military, a workplace, a guild or craft or union or
association of professionals, its requirements should not be governed
by those groups.
Yet if you go back to 1968, wasn't an argument in favor of
incentive licensing by the FCC attributed to the needs of
industry for technically inclined people?
Cheers,
Bill K2UNK