"Michael Black" wrote in message
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"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).


So what ? I guess you are easily amused.

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.

I suspect they still got screwed just the same. "There remains today, at
most, a few thousand amateur operators so affected who have not chosen to
upgrade."


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

"To regain the privileges withdrawn, a licensee had to upgrade
to Amateur Extra Class by traveling to an FCC office and passing difficult
high-speed telegraphy and written examinations."

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

FCC denied the petition.
But we can still credit the QCWA with trying to right a wrong doing.
Ace - WH2T