[RTTY] Contest QRMing of other digimodes (ARRL BOD)

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

All of which is rather silly ... Technicians already have privileges
in the entire CW portion (xx.025 and above) of those bands.  Why not
simply allow them to use PSK31 and RTTY?  It isn't exactly rocket
science and Technicians do not need to be pushed into a new ghetto.

73,

   ... Joe, W4TV


On 2015-01-07 6:42 PM, Mark n2qt wrote:
> Too late that train has already left.  This is from the last Executive Committee minutes.
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> 9.1.3. At Minute 37 of the July 2014 Board Meeting the Executive Committee was directed to study the addition of specific data privileges in narrow segments of the 80, 40, and 15 meter bands for Technician licensees. After extended discussion of the pros and cons of the proposal, on motion of Mr. Lisenco the Executive Committee voted to recommend that the Board consider soliciting input from the membership on adding data privileges for Technician and Novice licensees in their existing 15 meter subband.
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> Mark. N2QT
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>> On Jan 7, 2015, at 6:20 PM, Peter Laws <plaws0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Mark n2qt <n2qt.va at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>
>>> RM-11708.  There may well also be discussion over the BoD comments related to new
>>> Technician class digital mode privileges.
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>>
>> 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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