In article , Dick Carroll
writes:

N2EY wrote:
In article , "Kim"
writes:


And, is not upgrading because someone is happy where they are, a problem?


Nope.

And I suspect that's why every ham isn't an Extra. If someone's interest
doesn't include HF, VEing or a four-character call, there's not much reason
to
upgrade, is there?

73 de Jim, N2EY


Agreed! But if it's so OK, why are they virtually all hounding both us
and the FCC over the testing requirements?

"Virtually all??!?" You gotta be kidding, Dick!

In the seven years of its existence, NCI has gathered (at most) a few thousand
members who are US hams - out of ~685,000 possibles, ~200,000 of whom are
Technicians. And a lot of NCI members are neither newcomers nor Technicians.

FCC got how many comments about restructuring that were from Techs who were
against the code test? No more than 1,000.

73 de Jim, N2EY