On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Mark n2qt <n2qt.va@gmail.com> wrote:
> RM-11708. There may well also be discussion over the BoD comments related to
> new
> Technician class digital mode privileges.
As an aside from your aside, this last bit strikes me as silly and
says to me that the ARRL needs to appoint Yet Another Ad Hoc Committee
to study license classes. If you are going to give Technicians more
and more privileges, then why to we have the Technician class?
Because if we're going to have an entry-level license that gives a
"taste" of everything (like the Novice class, c.1991 after Novices got
phone on 10) and we expect that to give hams "incentive" to upgrade,
then why do we keep giving the entry-level more privileges?
Make the General test 50 questions and be done with it. Give half of
each band segment to the Techs and let them get to Amateur Extra to
get the other half. Or else deprecate Technician, re-instate a new
Novice class with (roughly) the old Novice privileges (maybe a little
more stuff above 50 MHz but not 144 or 432).
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Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train!
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