Mike Coslo wrote in message t...
Steve Robeson, K4CAP wrote:

I was reading my December 2003 "CQ" magazine and found an item
penned by Jim Wiley KL7CC, Scott Neustadter W4WW, and the snake oil
salesman of Amateur Radio...Fred Maia W5YI.

The whole jist of the article is aimed at creating yet another
Amateur Radio license, and the article suggests numerous "snips" of
other requirements from the regulatory, theory, practice and safety
regulations in order to "make" a slimmed-down beginners' license.

See if you can remember where their following suggestion was once
an actual practice of the Federal Communications Commission, and how
well it worked in practice:

(From page 36, December 2003 "CQ") QUOTE "Remove some of the
math from the license exams. Remove some or even most of the "radio
law" type questions. Instead require the applicants to sign a
statement that they have read the Part 97 rulebook, and that they ahve
a copy (available for free via web download). Yes, some of the
applicants will "skate" and not read it when they signed that they
did. But most will, and even among those who dont, eventually,
probablysooner rather than later, they will get around to it. Some
never will. That's human nature. We're not looking for saints, just
people who can become producetive hams". UNQUOTE

My first question for these brain surgeons is HOW IN THE BLUE
BLAZES CAN SOMEONE BE "PRODUCTIVE" IF THEY DON"T KNOW THE RULES...?!?!

These people are in a position of responsibility for mentoring
the next generation of Amateurs..?!?!

We'd be better off letting Michael Jackson be their sand lot
supervisor! ! !
Stop picking on the King odf Pop, it's not fair:

http://www.geocities.com/tom5515/frame.htm

Actually, it's kinfd of outrageous, wasn't Hugh Hefner a target of
Nixon's Justice Department in the 1970's --i think this is equally
political.