On 28 Dec 2005 20:51:57 GMT, (Jeffrey Herman)
wrote in :

Frank Gilliland wrote:
One license. Existing licenses would be valid until expiration with no
renewals -- they would need to pass the single-license test if they
want to continue.

Let's crunch some numbers: Our total MF/HF spectrum consists of just
3.75 MHz, with only about half of it, 1875 kHz, useful for
communications at any one particular time of the day.


Ok.....


If suddenly,
as if by magic, all licensees were granted MF/HF privileges,


I said nothing of the sort. You are assuming the changes would be
immediate. My suggestion to allow -EXISTING- licenses to remain valid
wouldn't change anyone's privileges until it's time to renew, at which
time the licensee can either take the one-license test or let it
lapse.


snip rant based on incorrect assumption
I'll never understand this liberal mentality of wanting to grant
everyone MF/HF privileges; it's no longer a privilege if it's something
that everyone can get practically for free.


That pretty much describes the current state of Amateur Radio anyway;
a written test using questions that are publically available (don't
even have to steal them out of the teacher's desk!), a code test at a
speed slower than needed for practical use, and a fee that isn't much
more than the cost of a happy-meal.

But then again, what law requires that an Amateur license must be
-earned-? There isn't one. On the contrary, the law provides that any
citizen who wants a license can get one, and the testing process is
only a method to verify that the prospective licensee knows the rules.

So if you don't like the "liberal mentality" of the law then you
should probably work to change it. Good luck.


We received our current
spectrum total at a time (WARC 1979) when we had less than half the
present number of hams. This movement of wanting to "fill up the bands
or we'll lose them" is nonsense.


I agree, and I don't recall saying anything of the sort.


As Michael Savage says, "Liberalism is a mental disorder."


Lincoln may have been aesthetically challenged, but I'm pretty sure it
was his wife that had the mental disorder.







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