On Feb 28, 5:46�pm, John Smith I wrote:
wrote:

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Len:

Just for starters, it pieces me off that the FCC doesn't even host the
download of the amateur pool questions "right-out-and-openly" on their
web page.

JS, amateur radio is not even close to their main task of
regulating ALL civil radio in the USA. However, they could
make a small link to www.ncvec.org if they bothered.

For real complaints, you might address the FCC on why
they do NOT bother with many updates of the amateur
radio page under the Wireless Bureau. They haven't kept
that updated but sporadically since the NPRM on
Restructuring (FCC 98-143) came out in 1998.

*This alone gives the VEC and arrl MUCH more credibility then
the toothless old grumps deserve.

I'd say the NCVEC is reasonably up-to-date given
their voluntary task of coming up with new QPs every
three years or so. The ARRL is only part of the VEC.

*And, I have complained about this ...
I will continue to do so, use the public funds and keep this outta
private hands and influence!

Sorry, but the privatization of radio operator testing put
that in very private hands of the COLEM and the VEC.
I haven't looked for a COLEM QPC but have no doubt it
exists somewhere. My First 'Phone that morphed into
a GROL went lifetime, no renewal and I have no need to
go look for that commercial pool.


The arrl need to go, and Carl is NOT looking like a good replacement
with NCI when he boot licks ... amateur radio needs a new start and some
new blood ... someone needs to kick some real booty here.

That's a subjective opinion, JS, and I won't fault Carl S. on
what he has done and stated in various places. I disagreed
with what NCI did NOT do immediately on FCC 06-178 when
it first broke news last December...but then NCI is really
an international movement, not strictly one for the USA.

While the USA is a LATE-comer on tossing the morse code
exam internationally, there still exist other countries who have
kept it, one way or another.

In my opinion, NCI could either dissolve or change away from
being USA-oriented with a different direction. NCI's basic
goals have largely been realized and, in that, was a success
to my mind.

As long as there is money to be made from publishing to a
niche hobby activity, the ARRL will be firmly entrenched.
Human attrition will eventually cause their metamorphosis.

73, LA