"Dee D. Flint" wrote in message y.com...
"N2EY" wrote in message
...

However, I think that one of the problems today is that the entry-level
license
is too VHF/UHF/voice/applicane operator-centric.
The entry level license should offer a wide selection of bands and modes,
rather than what we have now where newcomers get all of VHF/UHF but no HF.

73 de Jim, N2EY

Newcomers with any gumption can have some HF if they choose to pass the
code.

Sorry, Dee, but our resident Extra expert, TAFKA Rev. Jim, says that a
code exam is a disincentive to CW use on HF.

I just wonder what took him so long to recognize that fact as the
disincentive has been in place since 1912, and he has vehemently
disagreed with his new found philosophy for the past decade.