Subject: K1MAN is nothing but a QRMer
From: "Dee D. Flint"
Date: 10/13/2004 9:28 AM Central Standard Time
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"Steve Robeson K4CAP" wrote in message
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Part of 97.1 is to create a pool of self trained operators and
persons
knowldegeable in the radio arts. That license structure should be
established
in such a way that greater knowldege and skill grants ever-expanding
privildege.
Of course it must meet the requirements of Part 97 as its primary purpose
but the problem is who is to define the standards as to what constitutes
technical competency, operational competency, self trained operators, and
persons knowledgeable in the radio arts.
The same way it's done today...The FCC would set the objective and the
VEC's would ahve to create the "questions" for thier approval. The VE's would
then be given a set of "MET/NOT MET" criteria to check off an applicant on.
(logbook entries, certificates of completion, etc...)
There are already movements in
progress claiming that we do not need the standards being used today to meet
Part 97 not only in code proficiency but also in technical, operational, and
regulatory areas.
Uh huh.
Here we go..."No Test International" rears it's ugly head. It was bound
to happen!
73
Steve, K4YZ