K=D8HB wrote:
"Bill Sohl" wrote


The support is/was for ONE-TIME free upgrades as proposed by
the ARRL petition and one or two others. No support was
given to any permananent relaxation of written tests by NCI.


Under this NCI-endorsed plan, 345,802 current hams (using Jim's July 15th
census) would receive a PERMANENT relaxation of the requirement to test f=
or
General and another 75,730 would receive a PERMANENT relaxation of the
requirement to test for Extra. That's means that 421,532 individuals, or=
63.4%
of the existing hams, would suddenly hold licenses for which they had not=
passed
the current written examination. Trying to trivialize that as a simple
"one-time" adjustment is intellectually dishonest and a cop-out. By any
reasonable measure, NCI and ARRL both officially are on record as support=
ing a
lowering of the qualification requirement for General and Extra.

by no reasonable measure

In any change in the system there is the clear poetencail for large
scale adjustment of the licensesure of those involved

something that is clearly different from changing the number of tests
or their level of diffultity

you are just trying to pick a fight it seems

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73, de Hans, K0HB