July 19th 03, 01:55 PM
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From: (N2EY)
Carl, you have told us repeatedly that you know engineers who would have
become
hams except for the code test.
And even
after the code test was gone for VHF/UHF, they did not become hams because
they
wanted HF access.
The full spectrum, except HF, is a good incentive to get a Ham license.
Probably not all Engineers want or need HF so much that they wouldn't become a
Ham because of a code test.
A lot of today's hams were or are cb users.
Not me.
Now maybe, just maybe, the removal of the code test will result in lots of
new
law-abiding, progressive hams, interested in helping the ARS progress into
the
21st century with new modes, new technologies and a new vision of the future.
There is a code free license right now, so probably not.
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