[RTTY] ARRL BOD minutes published

[John GW4SKA]

OO notices, Winstink ..........
I hope this ARRL / FCC bashing topic moves somewhere else away from the RTTY 
reflector. Of course I can always just delete it like I did with the 
RM-11708 after a few weeks. It just goes on and on and on and on and on 
........

John GW4SKA/GW0A


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Laws" <plaws0 at gmail.com>
To: "Scott Schultz" <schultz0530 at gmail.com>
Cc: "RTTY contest group" <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] ARRL BOD minutes published


> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Scott Schultz <schultz0530 at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> From what I have seen on various forums (or is that fora?), the only 
>> reason
>> that Advanced ticket holders don't upgrade is because they don't want to 
>> be
>> in the same class as us guys who can't prove that we passed a 13 wpm code
>> test some time before April 15, 2000. I mean do they really honestly 
>> think
>> that someone will look up their callsign and actually be impressed by the
>> fact that they passed a 13 wpm code test at some time in the distant 
>> past?
>
> I'm impressed with my ability to pass Element 1B.  Not so impressed
> with my ability to pass Element 1C, however, given that I didn't.
>
> The one thing the ARRL learned about license classes is to never take
> away privileges.  Given that the Element 4A Advanced test was *harder*
> than the Element 4B Extra, there is no reason to just flip the bit and
> make them all Extras.  Novices are all inactive anyway so making them
> Technicians doesn't matter since they'll all expire in a few years.
>
>
>
> -- 
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