Steve Robeson K4CAP wrote:
Subject: FCC Assigns RM Numbers To Three New Restructuring Petitions
From: "Dee D. Flint"
Date: 3/23/2004 8:20 AM Central Standard Time
Message-id: m
How many petitions does that make altogether. Don't these people realize
that the plethora of petitions will drag out the process? It demonstrates a
lack of consensus in the ham community, which could cause the FCC to do
exactly nothing.
Naaaaaa.....They'll do "something", mostly because it's expected of them,
not because it's necessarilly needed or appropriate to do so.
The smartest thing they COULD have done was defuse all the controversy in
the first place and "suspend" further code testing when S25.5 was
modified...especially since that was the way they were already leaning in the
first place, public opinon notwithstanding.
All of which is refreshingly like my "as little as needed" suggestion.
And the second smartest thing they could have done was meld the Novice and
Advanced Class licenses into the three remaining classes. The whole purpose
of "Restructuring" was to administratively streamline the FCC's
workload...Sooooooooo...Why leave two whole classes of licenses out there with
no possibility of making new ones? They should have just taken a one-time
swipe at clearing the database then.
Maybe I should write up and add my ides to the mix.
- Mike KB3EIA -