"Dr.Ace" ) writes:


The Quarter Century Wireless Association, Inc. has filed a petition with the
Federal Communications Commission requesting rulemaking action to amend
Section 97.505(a) of the Commission's Rules for the Amateur Radio Service.

This is amusing, given that incentive licensing came into effect in the US
37 years ago, meaning that a significant number of QCWA members could have
been licensed after the rules went into effect. Someone licensed in 1968
is only 13 years away from fifty years of being licensed, doubling the 25
year requirement of being a ham to join the QCWA (if the old rule applied
that you had to be licensed for 25 years).

I suspect there are only a handful of US hams still active who were
around at the time of the introduction of incentive licensing and who've
not upgraded at some point.

People wait for over a quarter century for privileges they could get
sooner by simply taking a test?

Take note that the press release has a date of October 30, 2000, five
years ago. Surely by now there's been some sort of response to the petition,
be it yes or no

Michael VE2BVW