William wrote:
Mike Coslo wrote in message ...

Bill Sohl wrote:


Proposed entry level transmitter power is proposed to be 100 watts
when the operation takes place below 24 MHz; 50 watts above. This is the
same as the ARRL proposal.

I still want to see the people (tech's specifically) that have been
harmed by RF.


It makes sense in light of the present rf hazard calcs that we have to perform.

But I've not seen anyone claimed to have been harmed by rf.

I was nailed by maybe 50 watts of RF one time on the tip of my finger.
I was tuning up a MFJ tuner, and there was a problem somewhere. The
metal band on the tuner apparently capacitively coupled me to the tuning
cap and shazam! Darned if RF burns don't hurt a LOT.

I think that NCVEC and ARRL and others are missing the boat here. With
the likely disappearance of Morse as a requirement, they are simply
proposing *another* caste system, in which there is an elite, and an
underclass ghetto of people with what to me seem to be radically reduced
privileges. I don't have anything against different levels, but this
seems like too much discrimination.

- Mike KB3EIA -