On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:43 AM, Bob Burns W9BU <w9bu_lists@rlburns.net> wrote:
> Given that nearly half of
> the licensees are Technicians, granting them additional privileges on the HF
> bands could have an impact on band usage.
You've missed the point completely. There is no justification for
giving Technicians (or the 12,891 remaining Novices) Data privileges
on 80 m or anywhere else (they already have it on every band 10 m to
light). It serves no purpose. If we are to maintain "incentive
licensing", then expanded data privileges are the incentive. I put
"incentive licensing" in quotes because there isn't a lot of incentive
as it is and loading Technicians (and the 12,891 remaining Novices)
with new privileges for no additional testing is **the opposite of
incentive**.
Yes, the Phone/CW boundary needs to be pushed back closer to where it
was but not if the cost of doing that is giving away privileges.
--
Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train!
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