"N2EY" wrote:

"Dwight Stewart" wrote"
I've never made such a claim, so have no response to
any counter-claim.

You might want to take a look at the NCI and NCVEC
petitions, for a start on who is claiming what.


Excuse me? I'm not a member of, nor do I represent, NCI or NCVEC. Again,
I've never made such a claim. If you have a problem with something those
groups have said, take it up with them. I have no accountability whatsoever
for anything they've said or done.


I didn't know the Technician license was supposed
to lead to a technical revolution in anything, Jim.

That was one of the prime arguments for dropping the
code test for Tech back in 1990, and it's one of the
prime arguments for dropping it altogether today. You
want me to quote chapter and verse from some
petitions?


In its 1998 Biennial Regulatory Review, the FCC said...

"Given the changes that have occurred in communications
in the last fifty years, we believe that reducing the emphasis
on telegraphy proficiency as a licensing requirement will
allow the amateur service to, as it has in the past, attract
technically inclined persons, particularly the youth of our
country, and encourage them to learn and to prepare
themselves in the areas where the United States needs
expertise."

I don't see anything in there about a technical revolution, Jim. Instead,
I see an effort to attact "technically inclined persons" and "encourage them
to learn and to prepare themselves in the areas where the United States
needs expertise." I fully agree with that position. If someone has said
something different, that is not my position, nor the position of the FCC.
By the way, I also agree with that as it applies to the elimination of the
code testing requirement.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

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