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Subject: [AMPS] ARRL and QST
From: andywallace@home.com (Andy Wallace)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 16:05:38 -0600
More third grade style strawman arguments--nobody suggested making the written
exams easier--lets make them HARDER but dealing with relevant information.

Andy K5VM

Jon Ogden wrote:

> >If your position is that they are too easy, what about all the
> >Generals (100,000 plus) who can't pass the Advanced written??
>
> Who CAN'T pass the test?  I doubt that.  Perhaps they just haven't
> studied for it hard enough or don't care too.
>
> Uh,oh..Gee, I never build tuned circuits.  So why should I need to know
> about them in order to get an advanced class license?  Building stuff is
> archaic.  Gee, I just want to operate.  Please eliminate the circuit
> design questions from the advanced exam.  It's too difficult, I can't
> learn it and all I want to do is operate with my store bought radio.
>
> Sounds like another very similar kind of argument.
>
> 73,
>
> Jon
> KE9NA
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jon Ogden
>
> jono@enteract.com
> www.qsl.net/ke9na
>
> "A life lived in fear is a life half lived."




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