Hoorah Keith WB2VUO!!! I could not agree more. To the whiners do something or
desist. Or is being a popular member of the whining herd more important???
Mark,
KB8GKZ
bbams@juno.com wrote:
> I posted this to the QRP-L. Many (about 15) replies were from ops that
> felt that my post was/is a reasoned response to the impending changes.
> One commented that my view of this would beof general interest because of
> the noumber of active hams that were not around in 1968, the historical
> perspective being important.
>
> If you have any replies and/or comments, please send them to me directly
> unless you truly feel that the List needs to read them also.
>
> 73, Keith, WB2VUO
>
> --------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: wb2vuo@juno.com
> To: qrp-l@lehigh.edu
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000
> Subject: Fw: The End of Incentive Licensing!
>
> For those of you NOT around in the hobby in 1968, that was the year that
> Ham Radio died at the hands of the ARRL. Incentive Licensing went into
> effect that year, taking large chunks of the bands away form those who
> had toiled to achieve their General tickets, and gave it, in a totally
> elitist move to Advanced and Extras.
>
> Anyway, that's the way it was presented, mostly on 75 Meters and in the
> pages of "73, Survivalist Amateur Radio" (or something like that...)
>
> It's funny. The ARRL was blamed for "Incentive" Licensing, blasted for
> it in fact, but the program the FCC passed and implemented had almost
> none of the salient points that the League had requested in their
> Requests for Rulemaking. But it was the ARRL's fault (really it was...)
>
> Now the FCC has rescinded most of their 1968 changes, simplified the
> license structure, streamlined the testing but has NOT given the band
> segments for Advanced/Extra back to the Generals, but not much has been
> mentioned about that. The present restructuring is all about "growth"
> and Incentive Licensing was all about "growth" and it took a decade to
> really change things then and will take at least a decade to change
> anything now.
>
> Do you really think that anyone getting an upgrade to General, going out
> on the bands to work CW will stay at 5 WPM? The quickest way to raise
> one's code speed is to WORK someone, not use a code
> machine/computer/tapes or whatever.
>
> Stop whining and get your new Generals on the bands after 15 April '00.
> Make your Field Day plans >>NOW<< and make the CW station a focal point
> for the newbies!
>
> Do something or keep quiet. My teenager already whines enough...
>
> 72/73, Keith, WB2VUO, 100% QRP from the Depths of the Great Bergen Swamp
> FD'00 Chair - Brockport Amateur Radio Klub/Trustee - NQ2RP/B 10M Beacon
> My night light runs more power than my Rig!!!
>
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