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October 10th 06, 02:46 AM
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Here is how we can end all the silly antenna questions on the repeaters and on usenet.
Slow Code wrote: wrote in ups.com: Slow Code wrote: Could you pass all the tests again today, or would you have to study a little first? I could pass them all again, no study needed. And that goes for written, Morse Code receiving and Morse Code sending. Bring out any FCC amateur radio license test from Novice to Extra, from any time since I first got my license in 1967, and I'll pass it. I'll probably even be able to pass tests from long before I was licensed, too. Every so often I try an online practice exam, just to be sure. No problem. BUT I don't see any reason to require routine retesting of hams who haven't broken the rules. FCC trusts us to keep current - that's part of the "conditions of grant". FCC currently uses retesting as a sort of enforcement tool - if someone acts like they don't know what the rules are, or if there is some doubt as to whether a test session was on the up-and-up, FCC will sometimes require a specific retest. If you demand that all hams be retested, what you're telling FCC is that we cannot be trusted to keep up with the rules. Is that a good thing? FCC doesn't require routine retesting of commercial licenses - why should they require it of amateurs? Everything has been dumbed down, not just ham licenses. I don't think so. We can't have skills anymore in america, everyone has to be equal. Where do you get that idea? Equality of opportunity, yes. That's not the same thing as equality of result. That's what happens when liberals get to make & change policy. Too many liberals in government. Either you don't know your history, or you've got some weird definition of "liberal". For example: Were JFK and LBJ "liberals"? It was under their administrations that we got the rules changes known as "incentive licensing". Were Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush "liberals"? It was under their administrations that we got: - FCC exams replaced by VEC exams - Openly published question pools - End of Morse Code sending test - General/Tech written test split in two parts so that Techs did not have same written as Generals - Medical waivers for 13 and 20 wpm code tests (Bush "asked" FCC for this directly, as a favor to a King that was a ham) - Technician lost its code test Is George "Dubya" Bush a "liberal"? Under his administration, we got: - FCC support for BPL - ITU treaty changed to eliminate wording requiring code test. - NPRM proposing complete elimination of code test Now - are all those folks reducing the requirements "liberals"? |
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