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Old May 12th 05, 05:05 AM
Brenda Ann
 
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Default FCC developing psychological test for ham spam


"KD6EVM" wrote in message
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On Tue, 10 May 2005 23:37:38 -0000, KWAR wrote:


Psychological Testing of Amateur Radio Applicants...
The Cure for Spectrum Rage by Emil Heisseluft

"The FCC is in the process of developing rules that will mandate
the administration of psychological tests to new amateur radio
applicants as well as to operators applying for the renewal of
their licenses."

http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/Apri...ighlights.html



Well it certainly makes sense to **** away a few hundred
million on an infrastructure to pre-shrink license applicants than to
put a lot less into training, equipping and deploying enforcement
people with authority to pull licences and apply meaningful fines.


Perhaps a simple IQ test would be cheaper and more appropriate. READ
CAREFULLY: THIS WAS AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE! ON YOU!!! IT'S MAY ALREADY!GET
OVER IT!


Perhaps it would help to know that Heisseluft translates directly to English
as "hot air"