RadioBanter - View Single Post - How many licenses should there be, why and what privileges?

December 28th 05, 11:25 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

Frank Gilliland wrote:
On 28 Dec 2005 14:56:19 -0800, wrote in
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Jeffrey Herman wrote:
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.

That's a good way to get the number of US hams down to about half what
it is now...

Possibly. It could also reduce the inter-ham bickering to about half
of what it is now, which would make the service much more appealing to
potential -new- hams, myself included.

We might be able to accept Jim's unsupervised counting.