"Peter" wrote in message
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I am sure that, like me, many of the genuine users of this group, those
with a real interest in
the topic, have had more than enough of the whining from some "old school"
amateurs.


The problem is that there are a veciferous small number of foundation
licence holders who told us they would habng off until a new licence was
introduced, then they would get licenced and run big linears and/or use it
as a cover for thier illegal activities on 27, 6.5 or 3.4 MHz.
This is exactly what has happened.
They use CB language on the air and refuse to comply with their licence
conditions because there is noone to enforce them now that the RIS has been
scaled down.

Part of the reason is that some clubs have been handing out licence passes
to people who did not even meet the qualification requirments.
There seems to be a pattern of certain sorts of people passing more
regularly with certain clubs.

None of this will be seen from the statistics.

To make matters worse a lifetime or five year licence will stop the falling
away in numbers which used to happen with those less keen not keeping up
their licences. They will now be able to have a year or two of and come back
on without having to make any effort to get their licence back.

Its not a case of old school vs new school.
The people I am talking about are "having a laugh" deliberately at the
expense of those CBers who got their licences in the 80's and left CB to get
away from the same people!