"N2EY" wrote:
(Len Over 21) writes:

(snip) I got a COMMERCIAL Radiotelephone license
in 1956 (only one test needed) and had a career in radio-
electronics design since then. You will no doubt have to
say such is "irrelevant" for lots of reasons.

Not at all.

Please explain how that license and career have any relevance
to amateur radio policy. Particularly since you have never held
any class of amateur radio license.


Since anybody in this country can discuss amateur radio policy (license
policy or whatever), I do think a person's communications knowledge and
experience elsewhere is at least somewhat relevant to that person's part in
that discussion. Why would you think otherwise, Jim? Len is obviously
interested in Amateur Radio, which is good. The only thing I don't
understand is why he hasn't acted on that interest and gotten some kind of
Amateur Radio license over the years. Since VHF and above is one focus of
commercial communications today, one would think the Technician license
would have at least some appeal to him. This glaring, long term, lack of
committment to Amateur Radio is what brings his ongoing participation in
this discussion under suspicion.


You don't want to admit your occupation's firm name or what
it does,

Because it's not relevant. (snip)


This position is equally valid. While a person's communications knowledge
and experience elsewhere is somewhat relevant (if that person chooses to
make it so), communications knowledge and experience elsewhere is obviously
not manditory for participation in this discussion, especially for the
person holding an Amateur Radio license which will be directly impacted by
the outcome of this discussion.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/