"KØHB" wrote in message
ink.net...
As has been cussed and discussed here and on the air lately, ARRL
has
petitioned FCC to reduce the number of license classes from six
down to
three, namely Novice, General, and Extra.

If you haven't read the entire petition (it runs somewhere around
35 pages,
each page laden with microscopic-print footnotes) you may have
missed the
fact that there will actually be 5 sub-classes of General.

I suppose you're going to tell us that Advanced class licensees who get a
free pass to Extra privileges will be called Commodores? : In that case,
those of us who survived the 20-wpm confidence course in an FCC office 30
years ago should be named Secretaries of Defense. Move over, Rummy.

73,

"PM"