[RTTY] Novice back in the day (Re: RTTY - WAS -> And then there was one....

[Bill, W6WRT]

Before we do that we hams need to really decide what a ham license
means, what it is for and why have licenses in the first place. IMO,
too many hams look upon their license as a bragging tool, a piece of
paper to hang on the wall so they can look down their noses at those
less accomplished. I think this is wrong. I have been around since
there were effectively two licenses - novice and general - and it was
good. Novice let you get your feet wet and gain some experience,
general let you get on with more power and more bands and hopefully by
then you knew how to run a station. That all went to hell with the
ARRL's incentive licensing, the worst thing that ever happened to
amateur radio I believe.

This is not the forum for rehashing this, but these are things we all
need to think about. If you feel like replying, please do, but let's
not go overboard please. This is the RTTY reflector, after all. :-)

73, Bill W6WRT


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On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:00:27 -0500, "Peter Laws" <plaws at plaws.net>
wrote:

>
>We can easily do something about the poor state of the exams - we can
>submit better questions to the NCVEC QPC.