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Oh, someone will file a petition for reconsideration, and the FCC will
shoot it down. It's done. History.

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robert casey wrote:
Oh, someone will file a petition for reconsideration, and the FCC will
shoot it down. It's done. History.


As far as the US amateur radio license TEST it will be dead very
shortly. But...but...but...the FLAME WARS over code USE
must continue! :-)

All we will have in here are the warmed-over, stale diatribes by
the olde-tymer morsemen on how They were whoop-de-doo
radio Masters...the best Ops ever. :-)

Problem is, this ain't the 1930s no more, but the olde-tyme
morsemasters don't know that. shrug

Ned Lud would be proud of them...

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you still ain't me

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"robert casey" wrote in message
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Oh, someone will file a petition for reconsideration, and the FCC will
shoot it down. It's done. History.


The next flame wars may well involve the continuation of making the ARS a
"classless" service.

People will attack "extra" class and even "general" class; why should those
old geezers have HF band segments reserved for them just because they passed
a more difficult knowledge test? It is a form of "prejudice". After all,
dyslexics cannot take a written test because the letters in the questions
appear backwards and the ADD kids are too stoned on Ritalin to study the
material properly. What about the people who are truly mentally retarded?
What about people with Down's syndrome? Only the old geezers want to have a
written test and who are they but a bunch of luddites?

ARRL will eventually petition the FCC to have only one license class. One
should only need to pass element 2. We should eliminate elements 3 and 4.
After all, Colpitts oscillators are yesterday's technology. Someone will
form a lobbying group: NCI will become NKI (No Knowledge International). It
will be led by patronizing extra-class license holders who feel guilty about
their technical skills and who wish to pass the torch to less knowledgable
individuals, some of whom will electrocute themselves as they change the
3-500Z tubes in their newly acquired, used, HF linears.

Somehow, I would have thought the "knowledge" and "code" filters a bit more
humane, but Darwinism works too :-)

There will be a call for comments. In 7-8 years, there will be an R&O and
the bands will be knowledge-free.

But not without an interminable flame war on RRAP first.




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Stefan Wolfe wrote:
ARRL will eventually petition the FCC to have only one license class.


Oh, no! That would destroy the Bantam Rooster
syndrome and eliminate the pecking order in
the ARS.
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Stefan Wolfe wrote:
"robert casey" wrote in message
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Oh, someone will file a petition for reconsideration, and the FCC will
shoot it down. It's done. History.


The next flame wars may well involve the continuation of making the ARS a
"classless" service.


possibly but we can do without you starting it

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Stefan Wolfe wrote:
ARRL will eventually petition the FCC to have only one license class.


Oh, no! That would destroy the Bantam Rooster
syndrome and eliminate the pecking order in
the ARS.


Well, it could attempt to become "classless". But it could it really stay
that way?

'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.' George
Orwell, Animal Farm

I think Napoleon was a pig, chickens were low in status and Mr. Jones
eventually did get the farm back (didn't he)? :-))


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Stefan Wolfe wrote:
"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
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Stefan Wolfe wrote:
ARRL will eventually petition the FCC to have only one license class.


Oh, no! That would destroy the Bantam Rooster
syndrome and eliminate the pecking order in
the ARS.


Well, it could attempt to become "classless". But it could it really stay
that way?


it certainly could but the likely result will 2 classes at some point
noivice and full becuase the test would get unweldly other wise

but why are you stiring this pot?

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