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August 12th 04, 10:22 PM
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Subject: License Fees --- a poll
From: (Michael Black) Date: 8/12/2004 11:27 AM Central Standard Time Message-id: I suspect the majority of US hams were not licensed when incentive licensing was introduced. After all, it's been 35 years, and the various layers of simplification have brought in many new hams. It has. I suspect your suspicion is correct! I suspect the whole thing about incentive licensing is overblown. Morbidly so. Of course the Hatfield's and McCoy's went at it for over a hundred years, so I suspect those remaining few who got caught up in the Incentive Licensing brohouha will keep barkling about it until they are gone. How did incentive licensing damage the inflow of young people to the hobby? It was the already licensed hams who grumbled, and who lost anything. BAM! Hammer hitting nail on the head. BIG SNIP TO.... And getting back to the middle age men, it is they who keep repeating the mantra "how can amateur radio be appealing in a world where every kid has a cellphone and a computer?". So long as competition with society in general is the pivot point, then of course there can be little appeal to the youngster. Only by promoting the hobby's strengths and uniqueness can one hope to compete with superior forms of communcation. Amateur Radio has always appealed to a certain few, and those who are interested in radio for radio's sake...not necessarily as the fastest way to communicate or the most efficient. I imagine it will always be so... 73 Steve, K4YZ |
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