Dee Flint wrote:
"K4YZ" wrote in message
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wrote:

btw, when cb required a license, there was an age requirement.
I think it was 18, but it could have been 15 - I'm not 100% sure
because I was never involved in cb. Yet that age requirement
didn't
help cb's problems...

I wonder if that is perhaps because ham radio goes back to a
time when
people were believed to be responsible at a younger age even
though they may
or may not have been able to sign contracts, etc. That was a
time when
completing the 8th grade was still considered sufficient for
most people and
they often then went to full time work rather than going on to more

schooling. They were considered adults at least functionally
if not
legally. Even quite young children sometimes worked instead of
going to
school.

On the other hand, CB was set up at a time when people were
expected to stay
in school through high school and people's perceptions changed that

teenagers were still children rather than people in the early
stages of
becoming adults.

Class A and B cb go back to just after WW2. Yet IIRC, the age
requirement goes back to the very beginning.

Of course this is all just speculation but it's fun to think
about.

The most important factor is that an age requirement did *not*
insure mature, law-abiding behavior on cb.

Perhaps Len wants amateur radio to be more like cb...

Perhaps because Len epitomizes CBers...?!?!

It's impossible to tell from his postings. It would appear not
that he
wants it like CB but that he hates amateur radio and amateur
radio
operators.

Since Len doesn't answer questions in a straightforward fashion,
there's no way to know for sure. But Len never has anything bad
to say about cb, and rarely if ever has anything good to say about
amateur radio. That tells a lot.

I've pretty much copied your killfiling of Len's tirades, Dee. The
analogy of the fence concealing the landfill is excellent.

73 de Jim, N2EY