AQ5RQ Reply: Bill, the enforcememt nightmare would come
from instantly granting a quarter of a million or more
Techs HF privileges. We have intentional QRM on
the bands already. Add a quarter of a million Techs
to the bands, along with the resentment over this
whole code/no-code issue. What do you think will
happen?



Well, there were all those general lites and extra lites (I'm one) that got
HF phone privs in 2000. And no nightmare happened. Oh there was the
usual learning curve all newbies go thru (and a burst of newbies happened)
but most everyone learned.

So I would predict that after a short learning curve period that there
will be
no problem. Oh there might be a few people fumbling around with CW,
but the experienced CW ops might just as soon be happy that new people
are interested in the mode. Prehaps some bandwidth in the old novice
subbands could be dedicated to training new operators via gentlemen's
agreements. Or older ops who haven't touched a key in 20 years.

Again, note that 14.313 was rampant before restructuring.