03-03-18 02:11 Daryl Stout wrote to ED VANCE about ARRL Requests Expanded HF   
   Howdy! Daryl,   
      
    DS> @MSGID: <5A9BD1D6.1774.amtradio@capitolcityonline.net>   
    DS> Ed,   
      
    EV>I'm thinking the proposal was to help Amateur Radio Manufacturers.   
    EV>But I may be wrong.   
      
    DS>   Speculation was that may be part of it...or to try to get ARRL new   
    DS> members.   
      
    EV>I was a A.R.R.L. Member for about 10 Years.   
      
    DS>   I'm an ARRL Life Member...but except for being one of the VE's with   
    DS> their VEC, I do very little with them.   
      
    EV>I am going to go back to the other Echo and read all of what that ARLB007   
    EV>says.   
      
    DS>   The FCC hasn't issued a call for comments, and I'd be very surprised   
    DS> if this got anywhere. To me, let them upgrade to General Class   
    DS> license...they'd get far more privileges, and when I took the exam back   
    DS> in 2007 (just after the pool had changed), I thought it was "a piece of   
    DS> cake".   
      
   Why should Technicians try to upgrade to the General Class?   
      
   Since the CW Element for the Amateur Radio Exam has been discontinued   
   isn't the Written Test Element the SAME for the Technician and General   
   Class Licenses as it was in 1959 when I took the the Tech and General   
   written exams?   
      
   If so.   
      
   Shouldn't Technicians automatically become owners of a General License   
   since the 13 WPM CW Element isn't a requirement anymore.   
      
   Now that the Novice Class License is no longer the entry level why doesn't   
   the F.C.C. drop the Technician Class License and just offer Operating   
   Privileges for only the General and Amateur Extra Class Licenses?   
      
   What say  ..--..   
      
   73 de Ed W9ODR      ..   
      
      
      
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