In article , Gary Sanford
writes:

Element 1 will be gone next year. Face it.

Maybe. It's been almost half a year since WRC 2003 removed the treaty
requirement, yet less than a dozen countries have dropped or have announced the
dropping of code tests. The US isn't one of them.

Some say FCC could announce the suspension of Element 1 tomorrow. Others say it
takes a full NPRM process. Typical NPRM cycle in the ARS takes so long that
we're talking 2005.....just look at 98-143. The NPRM appeared somewhere in the
middle of 1998 but the changes that resulted weren't effective until April of
2000.

73 de Jim, N2EY