Al Klein wrote:
On 10 Jul 2006 18:48:09 -0700, "an old friend"
wrote:

Al Klein wrote:
On 10 Jul 2006 14:52:20 -0700, "an old friend"
wrote:

I already earned those prevlidges

Earned? By what? Filling out an application? Memorizing enough
answers to just pass the written exam?
exactly the same way you did by passing the tests required at the time

There's a difference between earning and being able to get with no
effort.
I spent plenty of effort overthe years

The no-code license was a bad idea to begin
with anyway.

perhaps it was (I don't agree it was but I will grant it might be)
but it is 20 years too late for that discussion

It's never too late to correct a mistake.
if it were a mistake the only bigger mistake would be to elimate half
of the curent numbers of licensees

That you have an opinion doesn't make the opinion something that
should be government policy.
sure thing you do the same
Who do you think you are, Bush? (Oh,
forget that - his opinion isn't worth as much as yours.)
never said d thtat either

but in any case the FCC will never take my prevledges thay have made
that clear

Right - the government NEVER changes anything. Are you really that
naive?
never no not soon yes


accordingly you need to learn to deal with what is instaned
of trying to overturn history

I have nothing to deal with - I'm licensed, and could keep my license
if they made 20 wpm, or digital mode testing, a yearly requirement.
yes you wold have to deal with thresult of ruining the ARS
The biggest problem would be freeing up a day to get to wherever the
test was being given.
and having any freqs left to operate on

Acualy I could have gotten one

It was you who said, "I having never been able to passa code test", so
you couldn't have.

you spoke too soon

No, you could have stolen a license - you couldn't have been licensed.
no I could have aloowed other to
There's a difference. Robbing a bank isn't earning a salary.
lots of differences but at least I am in touch with the real world

That's not passing, that's cheating. If you're old enough to go to
school you're old enough to know the difference.

so it is cheating it still is obtaining a license

That's about what it's come to these days, isn't it?
that offer was 30 years ago

but you clearly hate what the ARS is

If he hated it he wouldn't care what it's become.

he hates the ARS today his manner makes that plain

He cares because he
DOESN'T hate it.

no he thinks or igmagine he can hijack it

It's BEEN hijacked - he's trying to get it back.
if it was hijackewd that was 26 years ago theat service does not exist
anymore

and you would enact a sytem that would kill they ARS as it is if you
had the power

There were plenty of hams when 13 wpm was the entry level. A 5 wpm
code test and a *real* written test wouldn't kill it, it would just
separate those who are willing to do what it takes to be hams from
those who just want the license without the work.

maybe nut the current entry rates sugest otherwise

Correlation isn't cause.
but it does relate to results


and He does not
propose 5wpm and writeen test he prososes 13 wpm and a total lack of an
effective entry class and elimiating half the current licees and likely
a lot more than that

Oh, you mean the way it used to be, when there were plenty of hams.
vs the the preusre exerted for our bands

and any "paln" that involves dumping 300,000 hams right of the bat is
pretty going to finish off the ARS

Seems to me we had a pretty good ARS when we only has 100,000 hams. If
dumping 300,000 means losing half, it means having 3 times the number
we used to have. How is tripling "finishing off"?
becuase it would be halfing not triplling and to assume it is only
halfing is generous many of the current generald and extra would be
weed out withon 10 years
if ham radio looks like it it is dying we will loose oour bands to
anyone that wants em indded a likely result would losing many of ou r
hf bands bands to literaly an extpanded CB service our vhf and up
would be savaged

and we would be powerless to resist