In article , Alun
writes:

I have a proposal of my own. Here it is.

All General and above become Class As, everyone else becomes a Class B.

IOW, free upgrades for everyone except Novices and Techs. History repeating
itself - almost exactly the same thing was announced 51 years ago this month.

Class As get all privileges. Class Bs get 80, 40, 15, 10 and everything
above that, i.e. everything any one of the equivalent licence classes had
before but whole bands, not just subbands. Only Class As could be VEs, and
I would limit Class Bs to 200W, i.e. Novice power level. No other limits,
restrictions, etc. of any kind.

Well, it sure would be interesting!

The only losers would be Techs who could no longer run 1500W. I suspect
that few do, and that those who do would have no difficulty passing a
Class A test.

Could also do a "keep your old license docs and you can run full power" thing,
as "Techs-with-HF" do now.

I think that this has the virtue of being more politically acceptable than
Hans' version.

Probably!

73 de Jim, N2EY