On Mar 4, 6:00�am, "Dee Flint" wrote:
wrote in message


Eventually, they'll all be Extras and my wish for a one class amateur
radio service will be fulfilled. *We should change the name of that
license to: *Amateur.

While I agree that a significant percentage will go on to Extra, I also
think that there will be a noticeable percentage who will stay at General.
Unless you are into contesting or DXing, there is not a lot of advantage to
getting an Extra.

Sorry, but I disagree totally with the "not a lot of advantage
to getting an Extra." Sum it up with the two words: CLASS
DISTINCTION...or perhaps just one word: STATUS.

"Status" in a hobby activity? Do you want the "Slow Code"
military obediance of "saluting Extras" by all "lesser"
classes? To have the "lesser" classes sit on the floor at
meetings to "put them in their place?" Sorry, but that is
NOT the way to any "happiness" and "good fellowship"
in a hobby activity done for personal pleasure.

The military is IN the business of DESTRUCTION at the
very real fact of part of the military being destroyed in
the process of doing "defense." There is NO real
counterpart in amateur radio, never was. So I would
strongly urge that ALL classes and "leadership"
refrain from putting newbies, tyros, novices, etc.
constantly "in their place" and just guiding or showing
them how it is done. Most just starting out in radio
are PEOPLE, even the teeners, and they will not like
being "put in their place" by some officious type who
have (essentially) elevated themselves to positions of
what they think are "important."

73, LA