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Old February 27th 07, 08:45 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.amateur.misc,rec.radio.cb,rec.radio.shortwave
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Default ARRL Now Only Wants No Code Hams - Holding Midnight Exams

On Feb 14, 8:10 pm, wrote:
On Feb 12, 10:30 pm, "Stefan Wolfe" wrote:





"Jim Shaffer" wrote in message


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On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:35:46 -0500, "Stefan Wolfe"
wrote:


Don't bother disagreeing with me; it is the
large subset of the amateur base that you have to convince and,
unfortunately, that will take a while to change IF it ever does change.


And when you're all dead, nobody will remember you, or if they do
they'll laugh their asses off.


So you depend upon some sort of massive die-off to validate your license
class?


Its in the cards. The ARS hasn't enlisted young people in numbers
since the 60's. The die-off is coming.- Hide quoted text -

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That's what the hams get for trying to keep everyone else out of it
for so long, even when they knew radio theory, and for trying to keep
it their own little exclusive club wher only a very few people are
members, even though they don't know a thing about radio theory.

Keep people out for decades. Now there's a huge gap between the "old"
hams" and the "new" hams.

which means the die-off is coming, as you say.