Carl R. Stevenson wrote:

"Jim Hampton" wrote in message
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[snip]

I also don't want some idiot running 200 watts into a 5/8 wave groundplane
on 2 meters next door to me. He may be ignorant, but I am not.


And what is to stop a tech from doing so? (as long as he/she does the RF
exposure analysis ... which will probably show that it's just fine from the
RF exposure standpoint ...)

Jim, your class elitism/prejudice is showing - why don't you stop acting
like all techs are dimwits? Many are more technically accomplished than
many extras.


I think you are pulling this out of context, Carl. The original poster
said that (paraphrasing here) the people opposed to the upgrade are
wrong in part because the Technician and General tests are nearly identical.

Oddly enough, in a later post that same poster went on to note how many
Tower questions there are on the Tech test, yet not on the General test
- a seeming contradiction for nearly identical tests.

I am a "new" Ham, having taken all my tests in modern times. There are
significan differences between the Technician test and the General test
and the Extra test.

Jim was merely supporting adequate testing. As do I. Of course there is
a wide gap in what people consider adequate.

I know I do not consider the Technician test adequate to be classed as
a General. And I doubt I'll ever apologize for thinking that knowledge
is good.

- Mike KB3EIA -