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July 16th 04, 02:41 AM

In article , PAMNO
(N2EY) writes:

In article , Robert Casey
writes:

ANd then there's the question of what knowledge should be expected from
applicants anyway. Does it really require more knowledge and skill to
operate on 14.167 vs 14.344?

More spectrum is simply the reward system in use. It was chosen in large
part because it's easy to enforce.

Not only was it easy to enforce but it was selected because it was a
desireable enough reward that people would put in the training to get it.

But what does the FCC get out of it?

The whole concept of a license system with multiple levels of knowledge and
privileges.

Hardly. Just a nice little CLUB rule set devised by those wonderful
morsemen of olde tyme hamme raddio (when men were "men" and
kode was king). Yawn.

At three years into the new millennium, a time when all the other U.S.
radio services have dropped morse code for any sort of
communications, the olde tyme hammes insist on Kode is King.

That's the divine religious order dictum from the Church of St. Hiram.

FCC got talked into keeping it by all those morsemen who elevated
themselves (by their bootstrap circuits?) as grande champion
radio ops and using morse to "get through when nothing else
would" (incorrect, but one can't convince a Believer in real truth).

You can gloss up the "federal" rules any way you want as "so very
important" but that whole rule set is going by inertia and FCC isn't
all that interested in bothering with a bunch of amateur hobbyists
to change the rules. Lots more REAL radio for FCC to regulate.

Have fun pretending you are necessary for Homeland Security,
defending the nation by morsemanship. :-)

LHA / WMD