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

December 31st 05, 07:31 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

On 31 Dec 2005 01:52:05 GMT, (Jeffrey Herman)
wrote:

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:22:16 GMT, "KØHB"
Your proposal perpetuates the caste system currently in place which stratifies
and divides hams into arbitrary ranks. That mentality absolutely needs to be
destroyed.

A Vietnamese proverb I include in my syllabus each semester says, "If you
study you'll become what you desire; if you do not study you'll never
become anything." That exactly describes what separates any particular
segment of a population from another, including hams. There is no "caste
system" in amateur radio, for a caste is defined being born into a
particular social class and never being able to move from that class.

What separates an Extra from an Tech is not a "caste system" but rather
who had the motivation to study versus who didn't.

a simple lie one of the core lies told by on the side of the ProCode
test issue

in may case it borders on being a personal slander but that is all to
comon too

You sound like a socialist, Hans -- a believer in one and only one class
in a society.

No 73 for socialists,
Jeff KH6O

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