On Mar 11, 3:45�am, "KH6HZ" wrote:
wrote:

AF6AY wrote:
* *I was pleased with my local VE team's performance (all four,
* *not just three) and congratulated them after the testing was
* *over. *[I observed them while they were observing me and the
* *applicant group]

They were ARRL VEs, weren't they?

Perhaps this was the same VE team that tested the 4 1/2 year old?

I doubt it.

Those 4-1/2 year olds were tested in Indiana. AF6AY was tested in
California. AF6AY does
not know and has never met anyone involved
in the VE testing of those children back in 1998.
He simply *ASSUMES* that there is no way
they could have passed the tests honestly.

His proposed "cure" for that "problem" was to
propose that no one under the age of 14 years
be allowed to earn a US amateur radio license.

That way,
they could likewise "mentor" old geezers during their examination, so said
bitter old geezers could get their 'license'?

All the VEs and volunteer examiners I have
known and met have been very careful to follow
both the spirit and letter of the rules. That doesn't
mean all VEs are perfect. Just that I don't have any
first hand objective evidence of any VEs "mentoring"
during a test. Neither does AF6AY have any first
hand objective evidence of such behavior by those
VEs in Indiana.

Of course there have been documented cases of
VEs not following the rules to the letter. FCC has
conducted investigations and retests. AFAIK, no
such investigation has ever been done on the
VEs discussed by AF6AY.

As for "bitter old geezers", there's never been any
sort of age requirement, maximum or minimum, for
any class of US amateur radio license. Nor should
there be, IMHO, even though in recent years the
worst violators of FCC rules for the Amateur Radio
service have been in a certain age group. Ex-KG6IRO, who lived less
than 25 miles from AF6AY
and was recently sentenced to seven years in prison
for radio-related crimes, is well past retirement age.
So is the unlicensed person in Florida (Flippo?) who
is still behind bars IIRC.

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Then there's the issue of the analogy between
ARS rules changes and real estate zoning
changes, but that's another thread....

73 de Jim, N2EY