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"Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in message
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As for the BARF.....the answer is simple, about 70 licensed
amateurs
joined
it. All of which were either braindead, or stupid. Perhaps both.

Dan/W4NTI

Were the barf members CW tested?

As in front of the FCC? Most certainly. I never said being CW tested
makes
you have any sense.

Dan/W4NTI

I haven't seen any evidence of it either. But that used to be one of
the battle-cries for the PCTA.

bb

It was never a "battle cry". Instead it was an observation of human nature.
The more work that a person has put in to obtain something, the less likely
that they will act in a manner to jeopardize it. It was not touted as a
guarantee that someone would not misbehave but that it would keep the number
who did smaller than it would otherwise be. There is not, never has been
and never will be a panacea that will prevent all misbehavior. This too is
human behavior. Some will flout standards and rules just to show that they
can or because they have no sense or because they don't know any better or
any other number of reasons.

The best that we can do is to make the amount of effort to obtain a license
reasonably high so that fewer people are willing to risk losing it. As a
partner to this, the enforcement and penalties need to be reasonably high so
that fewer people will risk that in addition to losing their license.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE