"Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in message hlink.net...
"William" wrote in message
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"Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in message
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Well of course Steve. You can't get a MARS station license stateside
without having a ham radio ticket. That is obvious.

Dan/W4NTI

Not quite true. Novices have "ham radio tickets."

Perhaps still today, but it used to be allowed to get into MARS with a
Novice ticket. That was a long time ago, when a Novice ticket really had
to be earned.

Oh yeh, it was uphill both ways in the snow with a piece of cardboard
in my shoe. I remember. Pffft.

Of course now-a-days there is no Novice ticket. And those that still have
one are of no importance to worry about in the scheme of things.

So 31,545 amateur radio operators are of no consequence? I thought
that only the ARRL could be so cavalier about such a large block of
amateurs.

Dan/W4NTI

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