"Dee Flint" wrote


Based on everything that I have read, the object of having a series of license
classes was so that people could take the journey in smaller, more manageable
steps.

That's all well and good --- and if each "manageable step" has a corresponding
increase in privilege, we could call that "Incentive Licensing".

But what we have here (and had in the 1960's) is "Dis-incentive Licensing" ---
that's when you climb to a certain step (let's say "General") to enjoy a level
of privs. Then along comes an FCC R&O which knocks away some of those privs and
requires you to take another test in order to regain what you lost.

73, de Hans, K0HB