You might have to take the exam.

You don't have to take out the licence.

If you're as well educated as you claim, then you
could slip through all the exams with ease.

The M3/CB Fools' Licence is a gangrenous degeneration
of the technical pursuit (not a hobby) that is Ham Radio.

It is not and never was in need of "New Blood". If that
"New Blood " does not make its own gear then that "new
blood" is of the CB type and not the Ham Radio type.

Everybody had to start off with the RAE. That it was passed
with facility by otherwise-unqualified self-taught 14-year-olds
meant that there was never a need to lower the standards to
introduce the Novice (Now Intermediate) exam. That the
Novice was introduced means that there was _DEFINITELY_
no need to introduce the Fools' Licence whereby someone
starting out with no interest at all could have a "licence" after
only a two-day weekend course.

8-year-old children who do not even have the mathematical
background to work out resistances in series and parallel, the
most fundamental technical skill of any Radio Ham, are
getting Fools' Licences, thereby showing that one thing the
Fools' Licence is not, and that is a Ham Radio Licence.

I refuse to QSO with M3/CB Fools' Licensees precisely
because the licence is the thin end of the wedge leading to
non-technical Hams who are forbidden to build their own gear.

I exhort everybody who reads this post to refuse to QSO
with such licensees, not because of any personal issues, but
purely because of the threat that the M3/CB Fools' Licence
presents to Ham Radio if it is allowed to continue.

"Simon Smith" wrote in message
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Mr Bean
With the greatest respect.
I have no control over the RSGB and their decision to allow "new members"
with an easy foundation test.
Perhaps it was because the hobby was in need of some new Blood.
I was not allowed to sit the advanced test - or the intermediate test. I
had
to start off in exactly the same place as you did - at the very bottom.
I suppose you started off at the very top did you ? You must be
absolutely
brilliant !!
By the way I;m a retired research technologist with a Mathematics and
Chemistry degree - hardly a Mongolian mooron !
Why dont you write to the RSGB - perhaps they could make use of your
services in an advisory capacity.