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March 23rd 04, 04:10 PM
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"Steve Robeson K4CAP" wrote in message ... Subject: FCC Assigns RM Numbers To Three New Restructuring Petitions From: "Dee D. Flint" Date: 3/23/2004 8:20 AM Central Standard Time Message-id: m How many petitions does that make altogether. Don't these people realize that the plethora of petitions will drag out the process? It demonstrates a lack of consensus in the ham community, which could cause the FCC to do exactly nothing. Naaaaaa.....They'll do "something", mostly because it's expected of them, not because it's necessarilly needed or appropriate to do so. The smartest thing they COULD have done was defuse all the controversy in the first place and "suspend" further code testing when S25.5 was modified...especially since that was the way they were already leaning in the first place, public opinon notwithstanding. And the second smartest thing they could have done was meld the Novice and Advanced Class licenses into the three remaining classes. The whole purpose of "Restructuring" was to administratively streamline the FCC's workload...Sooooooooo...Why leave two whole classes of licenses out there with no possibility of making new ones? They should have just taken a one-time swipe at clearing the database then. 73 Steve, K4YZ Keeping the classes has the advantage that they could easily be re-opened if they should decide that they made a mistake. It's happened in the past. With today's computerized databases, it just isn't that difficult to keep the "orphaned" classes. I suspect within the next few years, the Novice licenses will diminish greatly anyway due to lack of renewal. The simplest thing would have been to simply decide how many, if any, classes would keep the code and leave the structure otherwise unchanged. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
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