"Steve Robeson K4CAP" wrote

So...ballpark the number of Amatuers at 650K...At $75/license
that is over $48M a year for the General Treasury coffers.

No it isn't, because the 650K would dwindle within a decade to somewhere
around 20K if a 10-year license renewal cost $750.00.

Then, with only 20K licensed amateurs the service would be folded up as
a poor reason to occupy the valuable spectrum it holds.

I am willing to bet that most of the idiots who are discipline
problems on the bands are smokers, too.

I was a smoker for about 40 years (quit 7 years ago) and am a lifelong
unrepentent metabolizer of modest amounts of adult (spirited) beverages.
My only citation from the FCC was for sending Morse code at 24WPM where
the rules specified 20WPM as maximum. Sunvagun!

With all kind wishes,

de Hans, K0HB
24WPM Discipline Problem