"The Duce" wrote in message
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The test will continue to dumb down because ham radio is dying. There's a
new radio game in town, its called cell phone. Like it or not anyone can
get
a license to use them.

I've been in ham radio for over 30 years. The same discussion is going on
today as was when I first started. It has never been settled and never
will
to satisfy all. Equipment prices will skyrocket as the number of hams
continues to decline. In fact they already have. I laugh when I see
radio's
like an IC-706 that someone is trying to sell on Ebay for $900 plus when
only a few years ago new ones were being had at Hamvention under $600.
Radio
is dying folks enjoy it while the government allows us to have it. There
is
no "use" for all the Techs anymore.Allthis brainpower should be put
together
to find a use for your existence instead of continually hashing the same
old
dead beaten horse.

Scanners and listening to the cops will die out too. Each police car will
have a wireless broadband set-up and the individual cops will carry around a
wireless link device to communicate to the computer in their car and that
will be "THE END" for scanners!

The handwriting is on the wall!

HJ