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The Pool
Here's an update on the "when will FCC drop Element 1?" pool.
Note how almost everyone's date, including mine, has already passed: WA2SI: September 13, 2003 KF6TPT: September 29, 2003 KC8EPO: December 31, 2003 K2UNK: January 1, 2004 K2ASP: March 15, 2004 AA2QA: April 1, 2004 N2EY: April 15, 2004 N3KIP: May 1, 2004 KC8PMX: July 1, 2004 WA2ISE: August 1, 2004 K3LT: September 15, 2004 WK3C: December 30, 2004 N4PGW:May 22, 2005 N8UZE: July 1, 2005 AB2RC: July 1, 2007 KB3EIA: July 5, 2007 W5TIT: June 1, 2008 Anybody want to add a prediction? If so, the "rolling rule" (thanks Dee, N8UZE) applies: If your prediction on this list is a year or more in the past, you can add a new one. At this point N3KIP and everyone before him can add a new prediction. All predictions stay on the list. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
wrote in message ups.com... Here's an update on the "when will FCC drop Element 1?" pool. Note how almost everyone's date, including mine, has already passed: WA2SI: September 13, 2003 KF6TPT: September 29, 2003 KC8EPO: December 31, 2003 K2UNK: January 1, 2004 K2ASP: March 15, 2004 AA2QA: April 1, 2004 N2EY: April 15, 2004 N3KIP: May 1, 2004 KC8PMX: July 1, 2004 WA2ISE: August 1, 2004 K3LT: September 15, 2004 WK3C: December 30, 2004 N4PGW:May 22, 2005 N8UZE: July 1, 2005 AB2RC: July 1, 2007 KB3EIA: July 5, 2007 W5TIT: June 1, 2008 Anybody want to add a prediction? If so, the "rolling rule" (thanks Dee, N8UZE) applies: If your prediction on this list is a year or more in the past, you can add a new one. At this point N3KIP and everyone before him can add a new prediction. All predictions stay on the list. 73 de Jim, N2EY Hello, Jim Well, I lost the original bet. Tell you what, by 2010 there will be no licensing requirements; by 2011, the U.S. of A. will no longer have any ham radio licensees. Everything will be devoted to either big business, Christian Churches, or the Repooblican party (assuming the brain-dead don't wake up). 73 from Rochester, NY Jim AA2QA |
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"bb" wrote Your strangle hold on the amateur service may not end until the actuarial tables kick in, but they will end. Jim has a "strangle hold" on ham radio? Gee, I didn't know! Hey, Jim --- loosen up and let me breathe! did dit ----- Reverse Fransworth de Hans, K0HB |
"KØHB" wrote in news:7UEqe.2534$hK3.1424
@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net: "bb" wrote Your strangle hold on the amateur service may not end until the actuarial tables kick in, but they will end. Jim has a "strangle hold" on ham radio? Gee, I didn't know! Hey, Jim --- loosen up and let me breathe! did dit ----- Reverse Fransworth de Hans, K0HB Not Jim specifically, but all the Pro Code Test Advocates (PCTA). I think it was Goethe who said something about new ideas not being accepted until those who cling to the old ones have died. It has to be said that there is some truth in that. I think that the FCC will abolish the code test before we get that far, though. They are taking their sweet time, though. My XYL is waiting on this event to go for her General, so that's my main interest. More countries abolish the code test all the time, although it's slowed to a trickle. I think Spain ditched the code test quite recently. OTOH, I think Italy may be one of the very few holdouts in Europe, but I think it is merely a delay. Canada looks set to do it soon, but has looked that way for a while, LOL! It will happen here too, but will have taken so long that some people will be shocked by it, as they will have pretty much forgotten about it by then. I don't think I'll add another date. I think it will be this year, though. All right, put my second guess as December 31st, 2005. 73 de Alun, N3KIP |
"Alun L. Palmer" wrote Not Jim specifically, but all the Pro Code Test Advocates (PCTA). Nope, those guys are just expressing opinions. If there's a "choke hold" (and I don't agree there is), then it's the FCC with their hands around the throat of the ARS. 73, de Hans, K0HB |
K=D8HB wrote: "bb" wrote Your strangle hold on the amateur service may not end until the actuarial tables kick in, but they will end. Jim has a "strangle hold" on ham radio? Gee, I didn't know! Hey, Jim --- loosen up and let me breathe! did dit ----- Reverse Fransworth de Hans, K0HB All PCTA, including those employed by the FCC. |
Alun L. Palmer wrote: "K=D8HB" wrote in news:7UEqe.2534$hK3.1424 @newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net: "bb" wrote Your strangle hold on the amateur service may not end until the actuarial tables kick in, but they will end. Jim has a "strangle hold" on ham radio? Gee, I didn't know! Hey, Jim --- loosen up and let me breathe! did dit ----- Reverse Fransworth de Hans, K0HB Not Jim specifically, but all the Pro Code Test Advocates (PCTA). I think it was Goethe who said something about new ideas not being accepted until those who cling to the old ones have died. It has to be said that there is some truth in that.=20 didit |
John Smith wrote: ... the writing is on the wall, the figures are good enough for a mathematician to hold as truth, the president of ARRL and FCC knows it... still, denial is a powerful thing... John I never once considered the actuarial tables as something to look forward to, but the ARS has changed all that for me. Now the actuarial tables are to be celebrated. Change will come to the ARS, eventually. |
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