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Subject: Let's debate: Should Amateur Radio be made a free for all?
From: Alun Date: 5/9/2004 8:03 AM Central Standard Time Message-id: If you are right, then the US will be the last country with a code test, decades after it no longer exists anywhere else. I don't think it will take that long, though. I was afraid of this. Despite supporting Code testing, I am also of the mind that once the majority has spoken, it's time to move on. They could have pre-empted all this by stating something to the effect of "based upon recent previous commnets on the subject, we are suspending the requirement for Element 1 for access to HF licensure"....But noooooooooooo... Firstly, I think the reason they didn't go for a memorandum report and order is more mundane. They don't care about any catfight because they don't care about amateur radio, period. They really don't care about ANY radio, if you pay close attention to thier "thought processes" in other actions, Alun. I really don't think there are too many people up there who have a clear picture of what's going on in ANY radio service. Secondly, I don't think they will wait for any more petitions. Sure they will! They are BUREAUCRATS! They are all about" petitions, applications, hearings, and the PROCESS of administering...They are poorly prepared to deal with the EFFECTS of thier actions! Thirdly, I think that when the dust settles they will just do what they were going to do anyway. Eliminate Element 1. Months and months later..... 1) Re-farming the Novice frequencies an increasing the phone allocations. Here there is already an NPRM, and I think they will carry it out. It just gives the same amount of additional spectrum to phone as is now Novice CW. This is what they are going to do. It's less than I wanted, and even less than the ARRL or the NCVEC asked for, but I'm betting it's all done; I dunno..... There's been what...a half dozen petitions in the last five or six years asking for the same thing and the FCC keeps thumbing thier noses at it...I don't understand why since the Novice license hasn't generated much interest since 1987 2) Eliminating supefluous licence classes. They will ultimately just do the obvious, i.e. give Novices and Advanceds a free upgrade. They won't revive the Novice and kill off the Tech. They will view that as a waste of time. The FCC is all for simplification, and they will point to the petitions as providing the consensus they were looking for, even thought they are slightly different. I really doubt they will "upgrade" the Novice since it's rapidly withering to nothingness...The Advanced...?!?! Maybe, but a lot of the Advanced guys see THIER license as being the last readily evident class as having been 13WPM/Old School tested and want nothing to do with "upgrades". 73 Steve, K4YZ |
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