J. D. B. wrote:
Al Klein wrote:


Or, as has happened over the past few decades, they won't. But now
that you said they will ... magic ... they will, eh?

Oh but yes they do. Some more than others. Your statement is baseless
and simply an opinion. So is mine. A gratuitous statement can be
refuted by an equally gratuitous statement.

Demanding answers without putting in any effort seems to have
substituted for learning.

I guess. This is the opinion of many old fart gate keeper hams, "I had
to pass a test to get a ham license and it was hard. So everyone else
needs to have to do what I did or it's dumbing down the license."
and maybe the test took was harder than it had any real reason to be

if that was the case I am sorry but that is no reason to keep making or
rather go back to making the SAME mistake