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"Dee D. Flint" wrote in message .com... "Bill Sohl" wrote in message ink.net... "Dee D. Flint" wrote in message .com... "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. Which would, I think, foster more hams to learn and use morse code if they really want that hot DX. And if more hams didn't learn morse to work those DX stations, that'd give more opportunity to work them via DX to current code capable hams. In either case it sounds like something the code enthusiasts should be real happy about. Cheers, Bill K2UNK While that could be a supposed "bright spot", I don't think that is a reason for supporting codeless licenses and free upgrades. That is certainly your perogative. Cheers, Bill K2UNK |
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