W2DNE wrote:


Dee Flint Wrote:

This latter one had NO effect on the CW space allocated to
Generals/Advanced.

Yes that's quite correct. I was just making a general comment over the effect
that the recent changes have on me. Being a CW ragchewer I'm happy to say that
this new CW band loss won't affect me much since I seldom if ever used that
upper part of the band. It's ironic though that if I had just kept my Novice
license of 50 years ago I could have used it today and my present operation
would be little changed. Course you couldn't keep a Novice license for more than
a year in those days, so that's just wishful thinking...


But of course it has an effect! It just dumped a quarter-million
potential new users onto the 75M, 40M, 15M, and 10M CW segments.

I think allowing all licenses on CW is a good idea. In fact I suggested exactly
such a license change on this very group several years ago. You can guess what
the response was. The population of the CW spectrum has been declining in recent
years. And most of my QSOs are with hams well over 60. My theory is that the
dead CW bands are due mostly to the dead CW hams. So I'm hoping that this change
will help...