"N2EY" wrote in message
...
In article . net, "Bill
Sohl"
writes:

Free upgrades for Techs would affect about 322,000 hams. Last year we got
about
20,000 new Techs, so the proposed freebie would affect as many existing
hams as
the new ones we might get in the next 10-15 years.


And how could the existing ham community possibly elmer these 300,000+ new
HF users should they all decide to be active shortly following that free
upgrade. I hate to think of the resulting SSB DX pileups as it is pretty
bad now. If a free upgrade goes through and significant numbers move to HF
within a short period of time, I suspect that we'll see a lot more DX
stations "hiding" in CW.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE