Mike Coslo wrote in message ...
Alun wrote:

"Dee D. Flint" wrote in
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"N2EY" wrote in message
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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.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

That's probably what some of the old guard are trying to do.

The facts speak differently.

They are most
likely filing spurious petitions to delay the inevitable.

Hardly "spurious". Hardly inevitable, either.

Bad form, Alun. One petition I have seen is of the "old guard type".
The others are eliminating Morse code testing (or keeping it for the
highest class, making the testing regimen easier. Seems like most of
them are along the lines of what you want, not the old guard.

In fact, some of them are either redundant or followups. Note that the
No Code International and NCVEC petitions that have closed are
virtually identical. Why didn't NCVEC wait until they had all their
ideas together and submit just one petition? That's what ARRL did ;-)

Hans, K0HB may yet submit a petition, too. It won't be an "old guard"
type.

It should be noted that there is plenty of precedent for this, too.
There were no less than *11* petitions that got RM numbers way back in
the 1960s, leading up to "incentive licensing".

73 de Jim, N2EY