"KØHB" wrote in message hlink.net...
K4CAP/K4YZ wrote: (about license fees)

I think fees in the $25/year range would not be inappropriate.

So let's take a poll:

Q1: If it cost $250 (plus testing fees) for a 10-year license would you
have become a new amateur radio operator?

Taking your poll at it's face value I would never in this world have
been able to come up with an inflation-adjusted $250 spot cash back
for a ticket back when I got mine. A drop-dead one year Novice
ticket?? How would that have worked?? I was a teenager with just a
paper route for income and you can bet there were both kids and
retirees out there who would have had the same problem.

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Q2: If it had cost $250 to renew your license each time over your ham
radio career, would your license have lapsed by now?

Absolutely not but I'd be screaming and hollering.

Here are my responses:

Q1: Not a chance.

Q2: When raising a family, spending $250 on a discretionary avocational
item would have been out of the question.

Depends on young family income levels which varied all over the scale
then and which varies even more today.

73, de Hans, K0HB

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