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

December 28th 05, 11:50 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

From: on Tues, Dec 27 2005 8:45 pm

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rom: "Dee Flint" on Thurs, Dec 22 2005 3:30 pm
"K0HB" wrote in message
"Dee Flint" wrote

Why? With the ease with which the General license will be obtainable, why
would anyone want to start with scaled back privileges?

Exactly, Dee. After all, the current General requires only
two written exams of 35 questions each, and a Morse
Code test of 5 wpm.

So they can "properly" emulate the past and all the "greats"
of "the service." :-)

Gee, Len, you've never qualified for *any* amateur radio license...

Gee, Jim, how many times and how many different ways can you say that?

Brian, it's all Jimmie has left in his verbal arsenal. :-)

He still confuses "qualified" with AUTHORIZED insofar as
"operating."

The FCC is very much AUTHORIZED by Congress to regulate ALL U.S.
civil radio. The FCC AUTHORIZES ability to use the EM spectrum
by means of licensing.

However, neither Congress of the United States nor the Commission
itself requires ANY staffer or commissioner to be licensed in any
of the radio services it regulates. Ergo, under Jimmielogic, the
FCC is "not qualified" to regulate U.S. amateur radio. :-)

That may be why, on 10 December, Jimmie wrote:

"The FCC doesn't license radio amateurs."

The whole point of Jimmie's comment on me was to discourage my
posting. Jimmie's concept of discussion on "amateur radio policy"
is a CLOSED one, limited ONLY to those who have already obtained
an amateur radio license. This is rather wrong in a democratic-
principled society but it fits his insular exclusivity. It also
fits Davie Heil's similar concept about amateur radio, so the
two of them form a mutual-aid enclave in here. Since I don't
agree with the "traditional" ('morse-coded') ideals of old U.S.
amateur radio, Jimmie wants me OUT of the "discussion."

Under Jimmielogic there is NO hope of any unlicensed-in-amateur-
radio person "discussing" anything, regardless of previous
experience in any other radio service. [in Jimmieworld
"amateur radio" is very much different than any other radio
service, therefore ALL unlicensed-in-amateur-radio persons are
"unqualified" to discuss anything] Unlicensed=in-amateur-radio
persons may (in Jimmieconcepts) ask polite questions, but must
never ever disagree with Jimmie (or his mutual opinion aid
enclave) in so doing. At that point, Jimmieguru takes over and
copies off reams of league-speak phrases, elevating amateur
radio to planes of existance far beyond what it really is...just
a hobby. QED.