[RTTY] ARRL Board Meeting - Approved modified HF band plan changes

[john]

power and greed--then and now  john w8wej

On 7/24/2015 9:15 PM, Bill Turner wrote:
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> On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 11:32:55 -0500, someone wrote:
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>>> Perhaps that's one of the reasons someone (formerly?)
>>> at the FCC speculated on eventually only having one license class.
> REPLY:
>
> I'm one of the old f***s who still thinks incentive licensing was a
> bad thing for amateur radio. Before then, there were just Novices who
> had one year to upgrade or they were done with amateur radio (i.e.
> non-renewable), and the General class which nearly everybody had.
> There were some higher classes available but they were just for
> prestige and conveyed no additional privileges. Few hams bothered with
> them.
>
> After incentive licensing we had this class structure which split us
> into groups - code vs no-code, my license is better than yours, etc,
> etc.  Thank you, ARRL. That was not good then and it's still not good.
> The old system worked perfectly and should not have been messed with.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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