"KØHB" wrote in news:7UEqe.2534$hK3.1424
@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net:


"bb" wrote

Your strangle hold on the amateur service may not end until the
actuarial tables kick in, but they will end.

Jim has a "strangle hold" on ham radio? Gee, I didn't know!

Hey, Jim --- loosen up and let me breathe!

did dit ----- Reverse Fransworth
de Hans, K0HB




Not Jim specifically, but all the Pro Code Test Advocates (PCTA). I think
it was Goethe who said something about new ideas not being accepted until
those who cling to the old ones have died. It has to be said that there is
some truth in that.

I think that the FCC will abolish the code test before we get that far,
though. They are taking their sweet time, though. My XYL is waiting on this
event to go for her General, so that's my main interest.

More countries abolish the code test all the time, although it's slowed to
a trickle. I think Spain ditched the code test quite recently. OTOH, I
think Italy may be one of the very few holdouts in Europe, but I think it
is merely a delay. Canada looks set to do it soon, but has looked that way
for a while, LOL! It will happen here too, but will have taken so long that
some people will be shocked by it, as they will have pretty much forgotten
about it by then.

I don't think I'll add another date. I think it will be this year, though.
All right, put my second guess as December 31st, 2005.

73 de Alun, N3KIP