"KØHB" wrote in message
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"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
for 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 supporting a lowering of the qualification requirement for
General and Extra.

In your opinion that is.

Hans, we covered all the same territory in this newsgroup
when NCI filed its own petition and also filed responses
to others. For now, anyway, it is a mute point since the
FCC didn't go with the ARRL free upgrades anyway.

Cheers,
Bill K2UNK