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![]() "Bill Sohl" wrote Not the same since there are distinct privileges with those licenses which differentiate them from the others. IF the FCC had made Advanced privileges exactly the same as Extra, then I fully believe they would have just changed all Advanced to Extra when they were individually renewed. From 1951 till 1968 the privileges for four license classes, Conditional, General, Advanced, and Extra were all exactly the same. We all used the same frequencies with the same authorized power, and from our call sign you couldn't tell one from the other. Life was good. Then some dump huck social-engineering gummint dudes, cheered on by a radio club in West Hartford, CT., decided to set up a bunch of arbitrary exclusive band segments as 'rewards' for advancing amongst the various classes, and then later drove wider wedges between the classes with the 'reward' of distinctive call signs for the higher licenses. Whatever good came of this is long since lost in the damage caused by 'class wars' which still rage. My proposal is based first on the notion that there should be two classes of license --- "Learners Permit" and "Fully Qualified", and second on the notion that those learners should operate in the mainstream with experienced hams, not segregated off into little ghettos populated with mostly other learners. 73, de Hans, K0HB |
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