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KØHB wrote:
"Bill Sohl" wrote | Neither ARRL nor NCVEC proposes any lowering of written | qualifications for General or Extra from what I have seen. ARRL has proposed that current Techs/Tech+ be upgraded to General. Since the current General qualification protocol calls for both the current Technician written test and an additional more strenuous General written examination, granting a Technician license to someone who has not passed that additional examination ipso facto results in a lowering of written qualifications for the one-third of a million licensees affected. Correct. And then there is the "day after" problem. Anyone that thinks that there won't be tremndous pressure exerted to KEEP the testing at the Tech level is less than clever. By contrast, your plan is wonderful, and you know I have some problems with your plan. But if it were a choice between the three, You'd have it. At least yours won't reduce qualifications overall. Now you can dance around that fact all you want, but you can't change the reality that the "written qualifications for General" will have been lowered for roughly 323,055 individuals. We can pick-fly****-out-of-the-pepper-pot forever wrestling with the niceties of semantics, but the cold hard fact is that out of the new 'combined' General class, only 30% would have met todays written qualifications for that license. The remaining 70% would have met a significantly lower qualification. That walks like "lowered qualifications", it talks like "lowered qualifications", it smells like "lowered qualifications", and in fact IS "lowered qualifications". | It is not about caring what you may think, but rather what | our (NCI) membership wants. Are you sure? Here is a direct quote from an email from another of the NCI directors. ".....our members by an overwhelming percentage like most parts of the ARRL proposal. That doesn't translate into what our comments will end up being; it's like sausage made by a Board of people. We'll see what happens ...." I can easily interpret that to mean that the "sausage" may NOT necessarily include all the ingredients desired by "an overwhelming percentage" of NCI members. From what I've seen, a "semi official" position of NCI is "we don't care what anyone thinks". - Mike KB3EIA - |
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