Imagine...a whole new "crop" of licensees TRAINED as they learned....No
more nets interrupted...No more autopatches initiated in the middle of a
QSO...No more 10-4 good buddy language.

Some of these mistakes would be "newbie" errors and the new ham will
likely spot the error and not do it again. And how many people
do autopatch anymore, now that cell phones are very common? I don't
have a cell phone, but I think in my 27 years of being a ham I
autopatched once or maybe twice. And
saying "10-4 good buddy" I don't see as a serious mistake.



If the new license requires manufactured rigs and low power,
it doesn't sound much different to a newcomer than getting a
CB setup. And CB doesn't require a license or supervision.
You want kids to choose that route? Actually I started in
CB back in 1976 and then decided to get the ham license as
I liked 2 way radio.