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December 29th 06, 10:04 PM
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So who won the "when does NoCode happen" pool?
"Alun L. Palmer" wrote in message . .. wrote in ups.com: I think after the dust settles the big issue will be grandfathering Novices and Advanceds to the next class up, i.e. tidying up the licence scheme. and of course I still want more phone on 40, 20 and 15, but it will be a while before the FCC will get back to these things. Maybe petitions on these things would be dismissed if they were filed right now, but later on they might succeed. As adamant as the FCC has been on this, it's very doubtful that grandfathering will ever happen. They've made it plain that they consider it reasonable for people to pass the written tests for the upgrades. In addition, at the rate the Novice licenses are decreasing they will be all but gone in less than 10 years anyway. You may be somewhat right on the phone issue. Actually though I would expect to see them try the band plan approach (ala Europe) rather than the regulatory approach. Bad thing here is that it will be a major issue on a contest day as the contest ops will expand to fill the whole band instead of just part of the band for any given contest as they do now. IOW, there are other outstanding issues, but IMHO things are moving in the right direction. I do wonder why this took 3 1/2 years. Maybe the large number of petitions (18) and comments (zillions) had something to do with it. Maybe even Riley had something to do with delaying it? Does he have that much influence? 73 de N3KIP I'm firmly convinced that the number of petitions was a major hang-up on processing this. Each petition had a slightly different spin and each had a significant number of comments. The FCC staff had to digest all this and come to an agreement on just what approach would be taken. Dee, N8UZE |
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