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Slow Code wrote:

Could you pass all the tests again today, or would you have to
study a little first?

I could pass them all again, no study needed. And that goes for
written, Morse Code receiving and Morse Code sending.

Bring out any FCC amateur radio license test from Novice to Extra,
from any time since I first got my license in 1967, and I'll pass
it. I'll probably even be able to pass tests from long before I
was licensed, too.

Every so often I try an online practice exam, just to be sure. No
problem.

BUT

I don't see any reason to require routine retesting of hams who
haven't broken the rules. FCC trusts us to keep current - that's
part of the "conditions of grant".

FCC currently uses retesting as a sort of enforcement tool - if
someone acts like they don't know what the rules are, or if there
is some doubt as to whether a test session was on the up-and-up,
FCC will sometimes require a specific retest.

If you demand that all hams be retested, what you're telling FCC
is that we cannot be trusted to keep up with the rules. Is that a
good thing?

FCC doesn't require routine retesting of commercial licenses - why
should they require it of amateurs?

Everything has been dumbed down, not just ham licenses.

I don't think so.

We can't have
skills anymore in america, everyone has to be equal.

Where do you get that idea?

Equality of opportunity, yes. That's not the same thing as equality
of result.

That's what happens
when liberals get to make & change policy. Too many liberals in
government.

Either you don't know your history, or you've got some weird
definition of "liberal".

For example:

Were JFK and LBJ "liberals"? It was under their administrations that
we got the rules changes known as "incentive licensing".

Were Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush "liberals"? It was under
their administrations that we got:

- FCC exams replaced by VEC exams

- Openly published question pools

- End of Morse Code sending test

- General/Tech written test split in two parts so that Techs did not
have same written as Generals

- Medical waivers for 13 and 20 wpm code tests (Bush "asked" FCC for
this directly, as a favor to a King that was a ham)

- Technician lost its code test

Is George "Dubya" Bush a "liberal"? Under his administration, we got:

- FCC support for BPL

- ITU treaty changed to eliminate wording requiring code test.

- NPRM proposing complete elimination of code test

Now - are all those folks reducing the requirements "liberals"?

It's the state of that nation.

Which nation?

Everyone's got to have their handout.
Outcome based licensing. Can't have both quality and quantity anymore.

SC

You blamed it on "liberals". But look at who was in charge when all
those reductions in requirements came about.

I emailed President Bush he should kick out all the Bill Clinton Liberals
in the FCC after he got elected, but he didn't. I can't blame him though
because he choose to tackle the terrorist mess Bill Clintoon left the
country instead. I feel a lot safer now than I did under Clinton, and the
economy is better too.

I just wish all you people would take a stand against dumbing things down
any further. If it continues, it going to make hams irrelevant and our
bands will sound like CB.

SC

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