Dee Flint wrote:
"Alun L. Palmer" wrote in message
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Michael Coslo wrote in
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[snip]

It's not particurly difficult, but I can see no need to continue
the
closed
classes. All those who would get a 'free upgrade' have held their
licences
for some time, so I foresee no impact whatsoever from eliminating
those
licences and upgrading them.

Alun N3KIP

Why not simply cancel their licenses unless they take the upgrade
exam by a
certain date?

Like the old Novice..

It gets rid of the closed classes yet gives no one a freebie.
Those who are active or care about their license but are inactive due
to
circumstances in their lives currently will upgrade.

I still remember the screaming from 1968 when "incentive licensing"
went back into effect. What you propose would be worse.

Those who don't care
won't be any great loss.

There's also the group who don't know. It's almost 5 years since
restructuring and I still read/hear questions from hams about what the
license structure and test requirements are, particularly from inactive
or narrow-focused hams.

Let's shake the dead wood out of the tree and find
out how many hams we really do have.

What good would that really do, Dee? If nothing else, it would give
folks like the BPL companies ammunition against us.

73 de Jim, N2EY