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July 10th 04, 03:47 PM
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Subject: Vanity Call fee going up in August
From: "Dee D. Flint" Date: 7/10/2004 7:19 AM Central Standard Time Message-id: "me" wrote in message news:FJQHc.62140$Oq2.29491@attbi_s52... Personally, I believe Amateur Radio Licenses should cost $75 per year for regulatory fees and the Commission should elimanate testing. I also believe that is how it will eventually be in the near future. 73, Me Doubtful that testing would be eliminated. International treaties require that there is proof the operators meet minimum qualifications. Since the FCC has given testing responsibility to the amateur community, the FCC simply issues the license so they don't have any vested interest in eliminating testing. And of course they issue the regulations and enforce those regulations like they do for all communications services. Besides testing is needed to attempt to insure that the licensees will have learned the basics of operating. Hams have such a wide range of privileges and frequencies that some basic knowledge truly is a necessity. We already have enough lids slip through so let's not make it worse. Dee, I was going to dismiss the troll's post simply on the basis that it was written by someone who doesn't have the gonads to sign his/her name to thier public comments (read that: coward) but then I got to thinking that there might be something to it. You know, of course, that I work in healthcare as an ER nurse...And you would be absolutely shocked at the number of people who come to the ER in distress because they claim they can't "afford" thier medicines...Of course they either wreak of cigarette smoke, metabolized alcohol, or both...but they can't "afford" medicine. So...ballpark the number of Amatuers at 650K...At $75/license that is over $48M a year for the General Treasury coffers. Of course for that I'd expect a lot stricter policing of the bands by Riley & Co for it, but hey, let's do it... I am willing to bet that most of the idiots who are discipline problems on the bands are smokers, too. That $75 would be a whole lot of cigarettes, even at present day prices. And there is one ultimate truism...Smokers will forego food, debts and common sense in order to buy more cigarettes (as will alcoholics for more alcohol...). I am willing to bet the scufflaws on 75 and 20 meters would go away in short order after the extra money for enforcement nails them to the wall. My license is worth $75/year to me. I'd pony up the cash. And I can promise you you will never see my name in one of Riley's "letters" on the ARRL website! 73 Steve, K4YZ |
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