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March 14th 05, 03:47 PM

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Dave Heil wrote:
bb wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:

Any changes made to amateur radio regulation effect those
who are already licensed.

I don't see how. Will you be at least 14 years of age
when the FCC drags you in for a retest?

I'm not scheduled. I'm not likely to be scheduled
and the FCC doesn't drag anyone for anything.

Dave,

You're missing some basic points about this minimum-age-requirement
idea.

First off, there has never been such a requirement in the USA. Not even
back before WW1.

Correct.

Len Anderson, who requested the age requirement of FCC and who has
a self-admitted problem with young people being licensed, has been
repeatedly asked to provide evidence - any evidence - that there
is some sort of problem caused by lack of an age requirement.

Len has never come up with any proof for his assertion of ARRL
dishonesty either.

He has provided no evidence at all of such problems. Nor has anyone
else.

That'd likely be because there is no such evidence in existence.

As a diversion, it has been suggested that such an age requirement
would not affect most hams today, such as you (K8MN) and Steve (K4YZ).
The clear implication is that you shouldn't oppose it because you're
over 14, and were at least 14 when you were first licensed.

But there's a clear contradiction in that diversion, because the person
demanding the age restriction is way over the age of 14, so it won't
affect him, either.

It remains that it has not been demonstrated that such a rule change
would be a positive thing.

In fact, if we follow the logic of 'it doesn't affect you', it could be
argued that since Len Anderson obvioulsy doesn't want
an amateur license, he has no real grounds for complaint at all.

To be completely fair to Len, he does not desire an amateur radio
license at this time. He changes his view from time to time on whether
he desires an amateur radio license.

His only apparent involvement in amateur radio is spouting off
bull****, nonsense and abuse on usenet, and in general acting like a
complete jackass. His sole follower simply performs a variation on his
themes. Why bother with them?

Len believes that by commenting to the FCC in regard to amateur radio
regulations and by doing whatever it is that he does here, he is somehow
participating in amateur radio itself.

Yes, Mr. Anderson did say that he was "going for Extra right out of the
box" back on January 19, 2000. But he hasn't taken even the first step
towards doing so, and there's no evidence he ever will. So the
requirements for an amateur license don't affect him in the least.

Precisely what I've told him over the years. He is uninvolved in
amateur radio. He is a non-participant in amateur radio. He is
irrelevant to amateur radio. He has no experience in amateur radio.

There's no good reason for a minimum age requirement for an amateur
radio license in the USA. We have more than 90 years of evidence to
back that up.

You'd think that if a problem existed, it would have manifested itself
by now.

Dave K8MN